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.

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Information

Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

Year

2008

ISBN

9783110208603

Edition

Topic

Languages & Linguistics

Subtopic

Linguistics

Index

Languages & Linguistics

Frontmatter
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction
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
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
The role of contrast in the acquisition of phonetic systems
How does Place fall into place?
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