The Segment in Phonetics and Phonology

The Segment in Phonetics and Phonology unravels exactly what the segment is and on what levels it exists, approaching the study of the segment with theoretical, empirical, and methodological heterogeneity as its guiding principle. A deliberately eclectic approach to the study of the segment that investigates exactly what the segment is and on what level it exists Includes new research data from a diverse range of fields such as experimental psycholinguistics, language acquisition, and mathematical theories of communication Represents the major theoretical models of phonology, including Articulatory Phonology, Optimality Theory, Laboratory Phonology and Generative Phonology Examines both well-studied languages like English, Chinese, and Japanese and under-studied languages such as Southern Sierra Miwok, Päri, and American Sign Language

Table of Contents:
Notes on Contributors vii 1 Introduction 1 Eric Raimy and Charles E. Cairns Part I Is Segmentation Real? 23 2 The Segment in Articulatory Phonology 25 Carol A. Fowler 3 Beyond the Segment 44 Markus A. Pöchtrager 4 A Prosodic Theory of Vocalic Contrasts 65 Chris Golston and Wolfgang Kehrein 5 Segmentation and Pinky Extension in ASL Fingerspelling 103 Jonathan Keane, Diane Brentari, and Jason Riggle 6 Categorical Segments, Probabilistic Models 129 Kathleen Currie Hall Part II What Are the Roles of Segments in Phonology? 147 7 The Opponent Principle in RcvP: Binarity in a Unary System 149 Harry van der Hulst 8 Why the Palatal Glide Is Not a Consonant in Japanese: A Dependency?]based Analysis 180 Kuniya Nasukawa 9 Determining Cross?]Linguistic Phonological Similarity Between Segments: The Primacy of Abstract Aspects of Similarity 199 Charles B. Chang 10 Contrast and Vowel Features 218 San Duanmu 11 The Phonetics and Phonology of Segment Classification: A Case Study of /v/ 236 Christina Bjorndahl Part III Case Studies 251 12 The Perception of Vowel Quality and Quantity by Turkish Learners of German as a Foreign Language 253 Katharina Nimz 13 Compensatory Lengthening in Hungarian VnC Sequences: Phonetic or Phonological? 267 Mária Gósy and Robert M. Vago 14 Pari Consonant Mutation as Defective Root Node Affixation 283 Jochen Trommer 15 Templates as Affixation of Segment?]sized Units: The Case of Southern Sierra Miwok 314 Eva Zimmermann Index 337

About the Author :
Eric Raimy is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison whose research centers on phonology from a cognitive science perspective. His most recent publications are The Handbook of the Syllable (ed. Cairns and Raimy, 2011) and Wisconsin Talk (co-edited with Thomas Purnell and Joseph Salmons, 2013). Charles E. Cairns is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at City University of New York, and his research specializes in phonology. His latest publications include Contemporary Views on Architecture and Representation in Phonology (co-ed. Raimy and Cairns, 2009).