Abstract
Linguistic elicitation is a kind of behavioral experiment. It remains an important source for phonological (and more generally, grammatical) argumentation even if it does not meet all the requirements for a proper behavioral experiment (in terms of the number of participants, for example). While the basic analysis proposed for Budai Rukai syllable structure is convincing, questions arise with regard to how the very basic notions syllable and stress are interpreted in the target article. Furthermore, one would wish for a more detailed argument regarding the analysis of echo vowels and phonetic glides.
Acknowledgements
Writing has been supported by the German Research Foundation (DGF) through the Collaborative Research Centre 1252 Prominence in Language (Project-ID 281511265, Project A03 Prosodic prominence in cross-linguistic perspective) and the Leo Spitzer Prize of the Universität zu Köln.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Target Article: Benjamin Macaulay; Issue Editor: Hans-Martin Gärtner
- Speaker judgments alone cannot diagnose syllable structure
- Comments
- Dismantling the universal prosodic hierarchy with possible evidence for the absence of syllables
- Elicitation tasks, language contact, and syllable structure in Budai Rukai
- ‘Direct’ elicitation and phonological argumentation
- Causes and effects of misreported syllable structures
- Intuition, intonation, inconsistency, and innateness
- The reality of Rukai Glides
- Native speakers and syllable structure
- Three worlds of variables to control in linguistics
- Reply
- Issues in systematizing the elicitation and analysis of syllable structure
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Target Article: Benjamin Macaulay; Issue Editor: Hans-Martin Gärtner
- Speaker judgments alone cannot diagnose syllable structure
- Comments
- Dismantling the universal prosodic hierarchy with possible evidence for the absence of syllables
- Elicitation tasks, language contact, and syllable structure in Budai Rukai
- ‘Direct’ elicitation and phonological argumentation
- Causes and effects of misreported syllable structures
- Intuition, intonation, inconsistency, and innateness
- The reality of Rukai Glides
- Native speakers and syllable structure
- Three worlds of variables to control in linguistics
- Reply
- Issues in systematizing the elicitation and analysis of syllable structure