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Contrast in Phonology : Theory, Perception, Acquisition / ed. by Peter Avery, B. Elan Dresher, Keren Rice.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Phonology and Phonetics [PP] ; 13Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (351 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110198218
  • 9783110208603
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 414 22
LOC classification:
  • P217.52 .C66 2008eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Theory -- The contrastive hierarchy in phonology -- Prophylactic features and implicit contrast -- Contrasts in Japanese: A contribution to feature -- geometry -- Quasi-phonemic contrast and the fuzzy inventory: -- Examples from Scottish English -- Effects of contrast recoverability on the typology -- of harmony systems -- Perception -- The impact of allophony versus contrast on speech -- perception -- Interplay between perceptual salience and contrast: -- /h/ perceptibility in Turkish, Arabic, English, and French -- Self-organization through misperception: Secondary -- articulation and vowel contrasts in language inventories -- Acquisition: First language (L1) -- acquisition -- The role of contrast in the acquisition of phonetic -- systems -- How does Place fall into place? -- Acquisition: Second language (L2) -- acquisition -- Learning to perceive a smaller L2 vowel inventory: -- An Optimality Theory account -- The effect of perceptual factors in the acquisition -- of an L2 vowel contrast -- Some reflections on abstractness and the shape of -- inputs: The case of aspiration in English -- Backmatter
Summary: 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.

Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Theory -- The contrastive hierarchy in phonology -- Prophylactic features and implicit contrast -- Contrasts in Japanese: A contribution to feature -- geometry -- Quasi-phonemic contrast and the fuzzy inventory: -- Examples from Scottish English -- Effects of contrast recoverability on the typology -- of harmony systems -- Perception -- The impact of allophony versus contrast on speech -- perception -- Interplay between perceptual salience and contrast: -- /h/ perceptibility in Turkish, Arabic, English, and French -- Self-organization through misperception: Secondary -- articulation and vowel contrasts in language inventories -- Acquisition: First language (L1) -- acquisition -- The role of contrast in the acquisition of phonetic -- systems -- How does Place fall into place? -- Acquisition: Second language (L2) -- acquisition -- Learning to perceive a smaller L2 vowel inventory: -- An Optimality Theory account -- The effect of perceptual factors in the acquisition -- of an L2 vowel contrast -- Some reflections on abstractness and the shape of -- inputs: The case of aspiration in English -- Backmatter

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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