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Underlying representations and Bantu segmental phonology

Abstract

Advances in output-oriented derivational theory are progressively subverting the notion of an underlying-surface distinction in phonology. Moreover, categorical patterning in languages’ sound systems can no longer be taken as immediate proof that phonological or phonetic forms are themselves represented in terms of categorical entities. (Harris 2007: 137)

Abstract

Advances in output-oriented derivational theory are progressively subverting the notion of an underlying-surface distinction in phonology. Moreover, categorical patterning in languages’ sound systems can no longer be taken as immediate proof that phonological or phonetic forms are themselves represented in terms of categorical entities. (Harris 2007: 137)

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Prelude, theme and riffs vii
  4. English /au/ 1
  5. The internal TR clusters of Acadian French 17
  6. Hocus bogus? 33
  7. A unifying explanation of the Great Vowel Shift, Canadian Raising and Southern Monophthonging 63
  8. Deconstructing tongue root harmony systems 73
  9. Underlying representations and Bantu segmental phonology 101
  10. Uniqueness in element signatures 117
  11. Charting the vowel space 133
  12. The relative salience of consonant nasality and true obstruent voicing 145
  13. Asymmetric variation 163
  14. The beginning of the word 189
  15. On the diachronic origin of Nivkh height restrictions 201
  16. Segmental loss and phonological representation 215
  17. The phonology of handshape distribution in Maxakalí sign 231
  18. English stress is binary and lexical 263
  19. Bogus clusters and lenition in Tuscan Italian 277
  20. The prosodic status of glides in Anaañ reduplication 297
  21. Index 321
Sonic Signatures
This chapter is in the book Sonic Signatures
https://doi.org/10.1075/lfab.14.c6

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Prelude, theme and riffs vii
  4. English /au/ 1
  5. The internal TR clusters of Acadian French 17
  6. Hocus bogus? 33
  7. A unifying explanation of the Great Vowel Shift, Canadian Raising and Southern Monophthonging 63
  8. Deconstructing tongue root harmony systems 73
  9. Underlying representations and Bantu segmental phonology 101
  10. Uniqueness in element signatures 117
  11. Charting the vowel space 133
  12. The relative salience of consonant nasality and true obstruent voicing 145
  13. Asymmetric variation 163
  14. The beginning of the word 189
  15. On the diachronic origin of Nivkh height restrictions 201
  16. Segmental loss and phonological representation 215
  17. The phonology of handshape distribution in Maxakalí sign 231
  18. English stress is binary and lexical 263
  19. Bogus clusters and lenition in Tuscan Italian 277
  20. The prosodic status of glides in Anaañ reduplication 297
  21. Index 321
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