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Complexity in Polish Phonotactics: On Features, Weights, Rankings and Preferences: Prosody, Phonology and Phonetics

Autor Paula Orzechowska
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 mai 2019
This book provides a refreshing perspective on the description, study and representation of consonant clusters in Polish. What are the sources of phonotactic complexity? What properties or principles motivate the phonological structure of initial and final consonant clusters? In answering these questions, a necessary turning point consists in investigating sequences of consonants at their most basic level, namely in terms of phonological features. The analysis is exploratory: it leads to discovering prevalent feature patterns in clusters from which new phonotactic generalizations are derived.

A recurring theme in the book is that phonological features vary in weight depending on (1) their distribution in a cluster, (2) their position in a word, and (3) language domain. Positional feature weight reflects the relative importance of place, manner and voice features (e.g. coronal, dorsal, strident, continuant) in constructing cluster inventories, minimizing cognitive effort, facilitating production and triggering specific casual speech processes. Feature weights give rise to previously unidentified positional preferences. Rankings of features and preferences are a testing ground for principles of sonority, contrast, clarity of perception and ease of articulation.

This volume addresses practitioners in the field seeking new methods of phonotactic modelling and approaches to complexity, as well as students interested in an overview of current research directions in the study of consonant clusters. Sequences of consonants in Polish are certainly among the most remarkable ones that readers will ever encounter in their linguistic explorations. In this volume, they will come to realise that hundreds of unusually long, odd-looking, sonority-violating, morphologically complex and infrequent clusters are in fact well-motivated and structured according to well-defined tactic patterns of features.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789811372988
ISBN-10: 9811372985
Pagini: 281
Ilustrații: XXXIV, 325 p. 80 illus., 10 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2019
Editura: Springer Nature Singapore
Colecția Springer
Seria Prosody, Phonology and Phonetics

Locul publicării:Singapore, Singapore

Cuprins

Chapter 1 Sources of phonotactic complexity in Polish.- Chapter 2 Theoretical approaches to phonotactic complexity of Polish.- Chapter 3 Statistical modelling of phonotactic constraints and preferences.- Chapter 4 Sonority and place constraints in phonotactics: Evi-dence from reaction time experiments.- Chapter 5 Phonostylistic processes in phonotactics: Evidence from casual speech.- Chapter 6 Quo vadimus? Towards an elementary particle in phonology.- Chapter 7 Conclusions.


Notă biografică

​Paula Orzechowska, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of English (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland). In 2011, she was employed in projects at the Institute of German Linguistics (University of Marburg, Germany), and acted as full professor at the Department of English and American Studies (University of Potsdam, Germany) from 2011 to 2013. Dr Orzechowska collaborates with English, German and linguistic institutes and research centres in Germany, Austria and France, working in international projects and completing short-term grants. Since 2016, she has been head of the project The Role of Phonological Features in Phonotactics: A Study on Structure and Learnability of Consonant Clusters in Slavic and Germanic Languages financed by the National Science Centre (Poland). Her main research interests are in phonetics and phonology, morphonology, psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics. She has previously worked on prosody, particularly on (mor)phonotacticsand word stress of Germanic, Slavic and selected Afro-Asiatic systems. Her most recent theoretical and experimental contributions were published in journals such as Frontiers in Psychology, Language Cognition and Neuroscience, and Folia Linguistica.

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This book provides a refreshing perspective on the description, study and representation of consonant clusters in Polish. What are the sources of phonotactic complexity? What properties or principles motivate the phonological structure of initial and final consonant clusters? In answering these questions, a necessary turning point consists in investigating sequences of consonants at their most basic level, namely in terms of phonological features. The analysis is exploratory: it leads to discovering prevalent feature patterns in clusters from which new phonotactic generalizations are derived.
A recurring theme in the book is that phonological features vary in weight depending on (1) their distribution in a cluster, (2) their position in a word, and (3) language domain. Positional feature weight reflects the relative importance of place, manner and voice features (e.g. coronal, dorsal, strident, continuant) in constructing cluster inventories, minimizing cognitive effort, facilitating production and triggering specific casual speech processes. Feature weights give rise to previously unidentified positional preferences. Rankings of features and preferences are a testing ground for principles of sonority, contrast, clarity of perception and ease of articulation.
This volume addresses practitioners in the field seeking new methods of phonotactic modelling and approaches to complexity, as well as students interested in an overview of current research directions in the study of consonant clusters. Sequences of consonants in Polish are certainly among the most remarkable ones that readers will ever encounter in their linguistic explorations. In this volume, they will come to realise that hundreds of unusually long, odd-looking, sonority-violating, morphologically complex and infrequent clusters are in fact well-motivated and structured according to well-defined tactic patterns of features.

Caracteristici

Offers a dynamic, exploratory, feature-based approach to phonotactics and morphonotactics Discovers the subsegmental motivation for the phonological structure of consonant clusters Develops the concept of (positional) feature weight Proposes heretofore unidentified rankings of phonotactic preferences Uses online processing and casual speech data as sources of external evidence