How to Live with External Evidence in Phonology
A Note on the Challenge of Interference
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20259642 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rajendra Singh (0000-0002-3301-0083, Université de Montréal, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 423-429 |
| Publication date | 1988-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-4131 • E-ISSN: 1710-1115 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0008413100013219 |
| OpenAlex | W2565221882 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
As far as phonology and morphology are concerned, the available evidence indicates that the role of L 1 in shaping interlanguage is confined to those of its rules that are needed to account for its global alternations, alternations that are independent of its morphology (cf. Cearly 1974, Dressler 1985, Kilbury 1981, Singh and Ford 1982, 1987, Singh and Martohardjono 1989, Wode 1978, and Wurzel 1977, among others). The rules needed to account for the local, morphologically dependent alternations of L 1 or the ones needed to account for its word-formation processes do not play such a role. Interference, in other words, can be caused only by across-the-board phonological rules of L 1 . So-called morphophonemic rules of L 1 do not cause it, and morphological interference from L 1 seems not to exist as word-formation errors in intermorphology are the results of illegal extensions of L 2 word-formation rules (cf. Singh 1989 and Singh and Martohardjono 1989). The purpose of this note is to critically examine the accounts contemporary theories of phonology provide of this state of affairs and to argue that the account provided by the sort of theory proposed in Ford and Singh (1983, 1985a, 1985b) and Singh and Ford (1982, 1987) is the most satisfactory one
Arithmetic · Cognitive science · Interlanguage · Linguistics · Morphophonology · Phonological rule · Phonology · Sociology · sort · Theoretical linguistics · Word (group theory) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |