Contrast in Phonology
eBook - PDF

Contrast in Phonology

Theory, Perception, Acquisition

  1. 357 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Contrast in Phonology

Theory, Perception, Acquisition

About this book

This book takes contrast, an issue that has been central to phonological theory since Saussure, as its central theme, making explicit its importance to phonological theory, perception, and acquisition. The volume brings together a number of different contemporary approaches to the theory of contrast, including chapters set within more abstract representation-based theories, as well as chapters that focus on functional phonetic theories and perceptual constraints. This book will be of interest to phonologists, phoneticians, psycholinguists, researchers in first and second language acquisition, and cognitive scientists interested in current thinking on this exciting topic.

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Yes, you can access Contrast in Phonology by Peter Avery, B. Elan Dresher, Keren Rice, Peter Avery,B. Elan Dresher,Keren Rice in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Linguistics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Table of contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Contributors
  5. Introduction
  6. The contrastive hierarchy in phonology
  7. Prophylactic features and implicit contrast
  8. Contrasts in Japanese: A contribution to feature geometry
  9. Quasi-phonemic contrast and the fuzzy inventory: Examples from Scottish English
  10. Effects of contrast recoverability on the typology of harmony systems
  11. The impact of allophony versus contrast on speech perception
  12. Interplay between perceptual salience and contrast: /h/ perceptibility in Turkish, Arabic, English, and French
  13. Self-organization through misperception: Secondary articulation and vowel contrasts in language inventories
  14. The role of contrast in the acquisition of phonetic systems
  15. How does Place fall into place?
  16. Learning to perceive a smaller L2 vowel inventory: An Optimality Theory account
  17. The effect of perceptual factors in the acquisition of an L2 vowel contrast
  18. Some reflections on abstractness and the shape of inputs: The case of aspiration in English
  19. Backmatter