Contemporary Views on Architecture and Representations in Phonology (Current Studies in Linguistics): Volume 48 (Current Studies in Linguistics, 48) - Hardcover

Raimy, Eric; Cairns, Charles E; Clements, G. Nick; Halle, Morris; Vaux, Bert

9780262182706: Contemporary Views on Architecture and Representations in Phonology (Current Studies in Linguistics): Volume 48 (Current Studies in Linguistics, 48)

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ISBN 10: 026218270X ISBN 13: 9780262182706

Publisher: MIT Press, 2009

Leading phonologists discuss contemporary work on the topics of metrical theory, feature theory, syllable theory, and the relation among grammatical modules. The essays in this volume address foundational questions in phonology that cut across different schools of thought within the discipline. The theme of modularity runs through them all, however, and these essays demonstrate the benefits of the modular approach to phonology, either investigating interactions among distinct modules or developing specific aspects of representation within a particular module. Although the contributors take divergent views on a range of issues, they agree on the importance of representations and questions of modularity in phonology. Their essays address the status of phonological features, syllable theory, metrical structure, the architecture of the phonological component, and interaction among components of phonology. In the early 1990s the rise of Optimality Theory-which suggested that pure computation would solve the problems of representations and modularity-eclipsed the centrality of these issues for phonology. This book is unique in offering a coherent view of phonology that is not Optimality Theory based. The essays in this book, all by distinguished phonologists, demonstrate that computation and representation are inherently linked; they do not deny Optimality Theory, but attempt to move the field of phonology beyond it.

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About the Author:

Eric Raimy is Assistant Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Charles E. Cairns is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center. Eric Raimy is Assistant Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Charles E. Cairns is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center. Morris Halle is Institute Professor and Professor of Linguistics Emeritus at MIT. Charles Reiss is Professor in the Program in Linguistics at Concordia University, Montreal. He is the coauthor of I-Language: An Introduction to Linguistics as Cognitive Science and The Phonological Enterprise. Andrew Nevins is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Harvard University.

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