Contrast in Phonology: Theory, Perception, Acquisition (Phonology & Phonetics)

364 Pages·2008·2.42 MB·English

by  Peter Avery (editor), B. Elan Dresher (editor), Keren Rice (editor)

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Contrast in Phonology
Theory, Perception, Acquisition
edited by
Peter Avery
B. Elan Dresher
Keren Rice
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Table of contents
Acknowledgements ........................................ vii
List of contributors......................................... ix
Introduction .............................................. 1
Peter Avery, B. Elan Dresher, and Keren Rice
Theory
The contrastive hierarchy in phonology......................... 11
B. Elan Dresher
Prophylactic features and implicit contrast ...................... 35
Daniel Currie Hall
Contrasts in Japanese: A contribution to feature geometry .......... 55
S.-Y. Kuroda
Quasi-phonemic contrast and the fuzzy inventory: Examples from
Scottish English........................................... 87
James M. Scobbie and Jane Stuart-Smith
Effects of contrast recoverability on the typology of harmony systems 115
Gunnar Ólafur Hansson
Perception
The impact of allophony versus contrast on speech perception....... 146
Amanda Boomershine, Kathleen Currie Hall, Elizabeth Hume,
and Keith Johnson
Interplay between perceptual salience and contrast: /h/ perceptibility
in Turkish, Arabic, English, and French......................... 173
Jeff Mielke
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Self-organization through misperception: Secondary articulation and
vowel contrasts in language inventories......................... 193
Alexei Kochetov
Acquisition
First language (L1) acquisition
The role of contrast in the acquisition of phonetic systems .......... 219
Daniel J. Weiss and Jessica Maye
How does Place fall into place? The lexicon and emergent constraints
in children’s developing phonological grammar .................. 231
Paula Fikkert and Clara Levelt
Second language (L2) acquisition
Learning to perceive a smaller L2 vowel inventory: An Optimality
Theory account ........................................... 271
Paul Boersma and Paola Escudero
The effect of perceptual factors in the acquisition of an L2 vowel
contrast.................................................. 303
Juli Cebrian
Some reflections on abstractness and the shape of inputs: The case of
aspiration in English........................................ 323
Heather Goad
Language index ........................................... 347
Subject index ............................................. 349
Acknowledgements
This volume grows out of a conference on contrast in phonology that was held
at the University of Toronto in 2002. The conference was supported through
funds from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada as
well as from a grant from the Connaught International Symposium fund at the
University of Toronto. We thank those sources for funding the conference. We
would also like to take this opportunity to thank those who reviewed abstracts
for the conference as well as the participants in the conference for a lively and
stimulating event that led to quality papers.
We owe a deep debt of thanks to Chiara Frigeni. Chiara served as editorial
assistant for this volume. It is through her persistence and perseverance that the
book is now done. Many thanks, Chiara.

Contributors
Peter Avery York University, Canada
Paul Boersma University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Amanda Boomershine University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA
Juli Cebrian Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
B. Elan Dresher University of Toronto, Canada
Paola Escudero University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Paula Fikkert Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Heather Goad McGill University, Canada
Daniel Currie Hall University of Toronto, Canada
Kathleen Currie Hall The Ohio State University, USA
Gunnar Ólafur Hansson University of British Columbia, Canada
Elizabeth Hume The Ohio State University, USA
Keith Johnson University of California at Berkeley, USA
Alexei Kochetov University of Toronto, Canada
S.-Y. Kuroda University of California, San Diego, USA
Clara Levelt Leiden University, Leiden Institute for Brain and
Cognition, The Netherlands
Jessica Maye Northwestern University and the Northwestern
Institute on Complex Systems, USA
Jeff Mielke University of Ottawa, Canada
Keren Rice University of Toronto, Canada
James M. Scobbie Queen Margaret University, Scotland, UK
Jane Stuart-Smith University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Daniel J. Weiss Pennsylvania State University, USA