Production, Perception, and Phonotactic Patterns: A Case of Contrastive Palatalization (Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics) - Softcover

Kochetov, Alexei

Softcover

ISBN 10: 113898387X ISBN 13: 9781138983878

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

First Published in 2002. Production, Perception and Phontactic Patterns presents the first experimental study of articulatory dynamics of Russian and of secondary articulents in general, with a special focus on the nature of positional markedness scales, one of the key concepts in the current phonological theory (Optimality Theory). Through a series of experiments the author questions the traditional assumption that positional markedness scales are directly encoded in Universal Grammar and provides an alternative account based on gestural recoverability. This study combines a sophisticated and in-depth analysis of language-particular phonetic detail with wide cross-linguistic generalisations and contributes to the increasingly influential body of research that investigates phonetic factors in the search for explanations of phonological universals.

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Alexei Kochetov

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 113898387X
• ISBN 13: 9781138983878
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 270