Abstract
Benjamin Macaulay advises us not to diagnose syllable structure, more specifically the distinction between vowel + vowel clusters and diphthongs in the Taiwanese language Budai Rukai, on the basis of speaker judgements. I fully endorse his approach, since much of current work in phonology unwarrantedly takes syllabification for granted, without arguing for its necessity.
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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