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From Phonetics to Phonology: theoretical and methodological accomplishments

Revista da Abralin, 2020

In this text, we present a review of the lecture Phonology: accomplishments and challenges delivered by Professor and Doctor Thaís Cristófaro Silva (FALE-UFMG) and mediated by the Professor and Doctor. José Sueli Magalhães (UFMG) on July 16th, 2020, as part of the program of the Abralin Ao Vivo – Linguists Online event. Cristófaro-Silva explains the accom-plishments, advances, and challenges of the past years in Phonology. The lecturer i) presents an overview of the methodological and theoretical contributions from Phonetics to Phonology studies, considering the pecu-liarities referent to their respective fields of study; ii) considers the emerging phonological phenomena in Brazilian Portuguese, such as the nasalization and palatalization; and iii) describes the main accomplish-ments of Phonology in Brazil, drawing attention to the plurilinguistic di-versity existent in the country and citizens’ social commitment to know this reality.

Phonological Processes and Phonetic Rules

2009

1. Relating phonological representations to phonetic output In both generative and natural phonology, phonological representations and alternations have been described in terms of categorical feature values, as in Jakobson, Fant, & Halle’s (1963) original conception. This categorical representation contrasts with instrumental phonetic data, which present the speech signal as temporally, qualitatively, and quantitatively non-categorical and continuous. The question that will be addressed here is how phonetic representation (‘surface’ phonological representation) and speech are related. Generativists and naturalists have taken two quite different views on this. The generativist view, and that of most recent writers on phonetics, has been that phonetic representation and speech are related by language-specific phonetic rules that associate binary phonological values with gradient phonetic values. The naturalist position has been that the relationship is universally determined in the ac...

The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences

This outstanding multi-volume series covers all the major subdisciplines within linguistics today and, when complete, will offer a comprehensive survey of linguistics as a whole.

Recent developments in phonological theory

Lingua, 1979

H.'s book (a revised and expanded version of her UCLA dissertation (IULC 1973)) presents and elaborates a phonological theory which has been developed mainly by Vennemann in a number of articles published since 1972. The book is divided into two parts. The first part (Concreteness in Morphophonology) deals with "the formal constraints on the theory", i.e. it concentrates on the abstractness and actual form of underlying reprefientations (henceforth UR's), rule types, cyclic application, rule order and phonological change. It includes several illustrations from Spanish. Part two (Natural Phonological Structure) deals with "substantive phonological issues" and contains a discussion of the distinction between morpheme structure rules vs. phonetic-phonological rules (the so-called duplication problem) and especially of the role and formal treatment of the syllable.

The phonology of

2009

All praise is due to Allah almighty to whom I express my first and uppermost gratitude for the completion of this dissertation. This thesis could not have been completed without the assistance, constant support and guidance of my supervisor, Wyn Johnson, whose feedback and encouragement are invaluable. I would like to express my deepest gratitude to you, Wyn. Special thanks go to the members of my research committee, David Britain and Rebecca Clift. This work has been improved greatly by your questions and comments. I am also indebted to Enam Al-Wer for all the great discussion we had and for all the useful references she provided me. I am also indebted to the members of the weekly Phonology Workshop, Wyn Johnson, Nancy Kula, Hana Daana, Moris Al-Omar, Jennifer Amos, Catharine Carfoot and Verónica Villafaña, with whom I have interacted during the course of my

The Experimental Phonology

Revista da ABRALIN, 2012

O presente artigo mostra que o uso de métodos experimentais permite formular hipóteses sobre a categoria fonológica e seu primitivo, bem como sobre a maneira como o falante controla seus articuladores. O objetivo é demonstrar que problemas e hipóteses fonológicos podem ser formulados e testados através do método experimental. Hipóteses falsificáveis são parte do interminável progresso do esforço científico, do qual o estudo da linguagem e a fonologia são partes inegáveis.