Phonology in Perception

Paul Boersma, Silke Hamann, Paul Boersma, Silke Hamann

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN: 9783110219227
• eBook ISBN: 9783110219234
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

The book consists of nine chapters dealing with the interaction of speech perception and phonology. Rather than accepting the common assumption that perceptual considerations influence phonological behaviour, the book aims to investigate the reverse direction of causation, namely the extent to which phonological knowledge guides the speech perception process.

Most of the chapters discuss formalizations of the speech perception process that involve ranked phonological constraints. Theoretical frameworks argued for are Natural Phonology, Optimality Theory, and the Neigbourhood Activation Model. The book discusses the perception of segments, stress, and intonation in the fields of loanword adaptation, second language acquisition, and sound change.

The book is of interest to phonologists, phoneticians and psycholinguists working on the phonetics-phonology interface, and to everybody who is interested in the idea that phonology is not production alone.

Table of contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Introduction: models of phonology in perception
• Why can Poles perceive Sprite but not Coca-Cola? A Natural Phonological account
• Cue constraints and their interactions in phonological perception and production
• The learner of a perception grammar as a source of sound change
• The linguistic perception of SIMILAR L2 sounds
• Stress adaptation in loanword phonology: perception and learnability
• Perception of intonational contours on given and new referents: a completion study and an eyemovement experiment
• Lexical access, effective contrast, and patterns in the lexicon
• Phonology and perception: a cognitive scientist’s perspective
• Backmatter