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- Title
The phonologisation of redundancy: length and quality in Welsh vowels.
- Authors
Iosad, Pavel
- Abstract
‘Phonologisation’ is a process whereby a phonetic phenomenon enters the phonological grammar and becomes conceptualised as the result of categorical manipulation of phonological symbols. I analyse the phonologisation of a predictable phonological pattern in Welsh, with particular attention to identifying criteria for whether phonologisation has occurred. I argue for a model where phonologisation experiences bottom-up and top-down biases. From the bottom up, there is pressure to phonologise phenomena with a categorical distribution; from the top down, there exist formal constraints on featural specification. I focus on the requirement for featural specifications to obey the Contrastivist Hypothesis, which denies that redundant features can be involved in phonological computation, in the context of a framework with emergent features. I suggest that the Contrastivist Hypothesis provides a useful boundary condition for emergent-feature theories, whilst independent phonologisation criteria provide contrastivist approaches with a more solid conceptual underpinning.
- Subjects
PHONOLOGY; WELSH language; MONOSYLLABLES; LEXICON; EDUCATION
- Publication
Phonology, 2017, Vol 34, Issue 1, p121
- ISSN
0952-6757
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0952675717000057