Buch, Englisch, 520 Seiten, Format (B × H): 186 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 1080 g
Buch, Englisch, 520 Seiten, Format (B × H): 186 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 1080 g
Reihe: Current Studies in Linguistics
ISBN: 978-0-262-01137-2
Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
This breakthrough study argues for a significant link between phonetics and
phonology. Its authors propose that phonological rules and representations are tightly constrained
by the interaction of formal conditions drawn from a limited universal pool and substantive
conditions of a phonetically motivated nature. They support this proposal through principled
accounts of a variety of topics such as vowel harmony, neutrality, and under specification.Unlike
much work on this topic, Archangeli and Pulleyblank provide an explicit account of their
assumptions, defined in a comprehensive theory of phonological rules and representations. The
authors survey an impressive range of data, including an investigation of cross-linguistic patterns
of ATR Harmony. They demonstrate that their theory is flexible enough to account for variation in
individual phonological systems, yet it is firmly constrained by a small set of well-motivated
principles. Extensive references throughout the book to published and unpublished work provide a
valuable roadmap through this semicharted terrain.The approach in Grounded Phonology is modular, in
that it presents a theory composed of subtheories, each of which is independently motivated, and the
role of each module is to constrain the range of possibilities (of wellformedness)in its domain.
Differences among languages can arise from differing intramodular selections or from interaction
among modules.Diana Archangeli is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the
University of Arizona. Douglas Pulleyblank is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics
at the University of British Columbia.
