| Underlying Representations Contributor(s): Krämer, Martin (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521180031 ISBN-13: 9780521180030 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $40.84 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Phonetics & Phonology |
| Dewey: 414 |
| LCCN: 2012009093 |
| Series: Key Topics in Phonology |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.85 lbs) 276 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: At the heart of generative phonology lies the assumption that the sounds of every language have abstract underlying representations, which undergo various changes in order to generate the 'surface' representations; that is, the sounds we actually pronounce. The existence, status and form of underlying representations have been hotly debated in phonological research since the introduction of the phoneme in the nineteenth century. This book provides a comprehensive overview of theories of the mental representation of the sounds of language. How does the mind store and process phonological representations? Kr mer surveys the development of the concept of underlying representation over the last 100 years or so within the field of generative phonology. He considers phonological patterns, psycholinguistic experiments, statistical generalisations over data corpora and phenomena such as hypercorrection. The book offers a new understanding of contrastive features and proposes a modification of the optimality-theoretic approach to the generation of underlying representations. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kramer, Martin: - Martin Krämer is Associate Professor in Linguistics in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Tromsø. |