John Fought
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 119174 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | John Fought |
| NOMBRES | John |
| APELLIDO | Fought |
| FIRMA | FOUGHT J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 24 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1969 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 2
A Phonetic and Morphological Interpretation of Zimmermann ́s Affix 61 in the Maya Hieroglyphic Codices
In this paper I propose a decipherment of Zimmermann’s affix 61 as -al when subfixed or postfixed to a main sign in the codices. The 102 glyph groups listed in the figures below include all the codical occurrences of 61 and one example from Linda’s Relación. Affix 61 is the so-called ‘bundle’ affix, which Gates called the ‘table of honor glyph’. The divergence of these ideographic readings from each other and from the phonetic approach used here …
Warm Climates and Sonority Classes
Previous research has shown that speakers in warm-climate languages make use of relatively more vowels, and speakers in cold-climate languages relatively more consonants. The high sonority (audibility) of the vowel, and its adaptive value under certain conditions, have been invoked to account for its greater frequency in warmer climates. We show here, however, that the above generalization is over-broad, and that sound classes vary across climate…
Response to Ember and Ember's “Climate, Econiche, and Sexuality
Sonority and Climate in a World Sample of Languages
In a world sample (N = 60), the indigenous languages of tropical and subtropical climates in contrast to the languages spoken in temperate and cold zones manifested high levels of sonority. High sonority in phonetic segments, as found for example in vowels (versus consonants), increases the carrying power of speech sounds and, hence, audibility at a distance. We assume that in the course of daily activities, the speakers in warm/hot climates (a) …
Rhythmicity or Sonority
Leonard bloomfield's linguistic legacy
Leonard Bloomfield's system of linguistics was recast by his colleagues and students. His morphophonemic phonology influenced Chomsky's early generative phonology. His version of Wundt's psychologically based immediate constituent analysis was adopted by the distributionalists, and later also by the Chomskyans, each for different reasons. His descriptive semantics was left out of American linguistics except for some linguistic anthropologists who…
Arbitrariness, iconicity, and conceptuality
Linguistic Anthropology
The reinvention of Hugo Schuchardt (Review article)
Interest in Hugo Schuchardt (1842–1927) has recently grown and broadened. A number of recent studies and collections of his work are reviewed. The conventional historiographical portrait of him shows an isolated, marginal dilettante intransigently opposed to the neogrammarian hypothesis of regular sound change. A closer look shows a large body of important work oriented around themes of language mixture, lexicalism, and the importance of the soci…
American Structuralism
Current Trends in Phonology
Three Phases of Development For more than half a century now, discussions of phonology within linguis tics have taken into account the limits of the subject established by the pioneers of American structuralism, especially Edward Sapir (75) and Leonard Bloomfield (5). Sapir's notion of sound pattern and Bloomfield's of phonetic pattern were strikingly similar at that time, and both, but especially Sapir's, have remained as subjects of at least in…
The 'Medieval Sibilants' of the Eulalia-Ludwigslied Manuscript and Their Development in Early Old French
The account given by Joos 1952 of the emergence of a contrast between laminai and apical sibilants in Old French and Old High German, and its reduction in Later Old French and Middle High German, is brought into sharper focus by examining the evidence of a 9th century MS containing a text in Old Picard and one in Old Rhine Franconian written by the same hand. This evidence suggests a re-interpretation of the development of the sibilant systems in…
American Structuralism
Rule Ordering, Interference, and Free Alternation in Phonology
Attempts to justify the principle of asymmetrical ordering have failed to consider some of the alternative relations among phonological rules and have ignored the problems raised by free alternation. Many free alternation patterns, like the i/y/iy, u/v/uv of Sanskrit and the complex vowel sequence alternations of Chorti (Mayan), cannot be generated economically by rules applicable only in fixed linear or cyclical order, but can be by rules applic…
On the Adequacy of Recent Phonological Theories and Practices
Linguistic
Chortí (Mayan) Ceremonial Organization1
A recent typology of the Mayas (Tax 1964) classified the Chortí of eastern Guatemala as intermediate between the Yucatec, where shamans have both individual and communal functions, and the peoples of the Guatemalan highlands, where shamans perform for individuals and communal ceremonies are performed by permanent organizations (cofradías). Reinterpreting published reports in the light of new fieldwork, the author suggests (1) that some aspects of…
Sonority and Climate in a World Sample of Languages
In a world sample (N = 60), the indigenous languages of tropical and subtropical climates in contrast to the languages spoken in temperate and cold zones manifested high levels of sonority. High sonority in phonetic segments, as found for example in vowels (versus consonants), increases the carrying power of speech sounds and, hence, audibility at a distance. We assume that in the course of daily activities, the speakers in warm/hot climates (a) …
Rhythmicity or Sonority
Leonard bloomfield's linguistic legacy
Leonard Bloomfield's system of linguistics was recast by his colleagues and students. His morphophonemic phonology influenced Chomsky's early generative phonology. His version of Wundt's psychologically based immediate constituent analysis was adopted by the distributionalists, and later also by the Chomskyans, each for different reasons. His descriptive semantics was left out of American linguistics except for some linguistic anthropologists who…
Warm Climates and Sonority Classes
Previous research has shown that speakers in warm-climate languages make use of relatively more vowels, and speakers in cold-climate languages relatively more consonants. The high sonority (audibility) of the vowel, and its adaptive value under certain conditions, have been invoked to account for its greater frequency in warmer climates. We show here, however, that the above generalization is over-broad, and that sound classes vary across climate…
Chortí (Mayan) Ceremonial Organization1
A recent typology of the Mayas (Tax 1964) classified the Chortí of eastern Guatemala as intermediate between the Yucatec, where shamans have both individual and communal functions, and the peoples of the Guatemalan highlands, where shamans perform for individuals and communal ceremonies are performed by permanent organizations (cofradías). Reinterpreting published reports in the light of new fieldwork, the author suggests (1) that some aspects of…
On the Adequacy of Recent Phonological Theories and Practices
Chortí (Mayan) Ceremonial Organization1
A recent typology of the Mayas (Tax 1964) classified the Chortí of eastern Guatemala as intermediate between the Yucatec, where shamans have both individual and communal functions, and the peoples of the Guatemalan highlands, where shamans perform for individuals and communal ceremonies are performed by permanent organizations (cofradías). Reinterpreting published reports in the light of new fieldwork, the author suggests (1) that some aspects of…
Linguistic
Rule Ordering, Interference, and Free Alternation in Phonology
Attempts to justify the principle of asymmetrical ordering have failed to consider some of the alternative relations among phonological rules and have ignored the problems raised by free alternation. Many free alternation patterns, like the i/y/iy, u/v/uv of Sanskrit and the complex vowel sequence alternations of Chorti (Mayan), cannot be generated economically by rules applicable only in fixed linear or cyclical order, but can be by rules applic…
On the Adequacy of Recent Phonological Theories and Practices
American Structuralism
The 'Medieval Sibilants' of the Eulalia-Ludwigslied Manuscript and Their Development in Early Old French
The account given by Joos 1952 of the emergence of a contrast between laminai and apical sibilants in Old French and Old High German, and its reduction in Later Old French and Middle High German, is brought into sharper focus by examining the evidence of a 9th century MS containing a text in Old Picard and one in Old Rhine Franconian written by the same hand. This evidence suggests a re-interpretation of the development of the sibilant systems in…
Current Trends in Phonology
Three Phases of Development For more than half a century now, discussions of phonology within linguis tics have taken into account the limits of the subject established by the pioneers of American structuralism, especially Edward Sapir (75) and Leonard Bloomfield (5). Sapir's notion of sound pattern and Bloomfield's of phonetic pattern were strikingly similar at that time, and both, but especially Sapir's, have remained as subjects of at least in…
American Structuralism
The reinvention of Hugo Schuchardt (Review article)
Interest in Hugo Schuchardt (1842–1927) has recently grown and broadened. A number of recent studies and collections of his work are reviewed. The conventional historiographical portrait of him shows an isolated, marginal dilettante intransigently opposed to the neogrammarian hypothesis of regular sound change. A closer look shows a large body of important work oriented around themes of language mixture, lexicalism, and the importance of the soci…
Linguistic Anthropology
Arbitrariness, iconicity, and conceptuality
Leonard bloomfield's linguistic legacy
Leonard Bloomfield's system of linguistics was recast by his colleagues and students. His morphophonemic phonology influenced Chomsky's early generative phonology. His version of Wundt's psychologically based immediate constituent analysis was adopted by the distributionalists, and later also by the Chomskyans, each for different reasons. His descriptive semantics was left out of American linguistics except for some linguistic anthropologists who…
Rhythmicity or Sonority
Sonority and Climate in a World Sample of Languages
In a world sample (N = 60), the indigenous languages of tropical and subtropical climates in contrast to the languages spoken in temperate and cold zones manifested high levels of sonority. High sonority in phonetic segments, as found for example in vowels (versus consonants), increases the carrying power of speech sounds and, hence, audibility at a distance. We assume that in the course of daily activities, the speakers in warm/hot climates (a) …
Response to Ember and Ember's “Climate, Econiche, and Sexuality
Warm Climates and Sonority Classes
Previous research has shown that speakers in warm-climate languages make use of relatively more vowels, and speakers in cold-climate languages relatively more consonants. The high sonority (audibility) of the vowel, and its adaptive value under certain conditions, have been invoked to account for its greater frequency in warmer climates. We show here, however, that the above generalization is over-broad, and that sound classes vary across climate…
A Phonetic and Morphological Interpretation of Zimmermann ́s Affix 61 in the Maya Hieroglyphic Codices
In this paper I propose a decipherment of Zimmermann’s affix 61 as -al when subfixed or postfixed to a main sign in the codices. The 102 glyph groups listed in the figures below include all the codical occurrences of 61 and one example from Linda’s Relación. Affix 61 is the so-called ‘bundle’ affix, which Gates called the ‘table of honor glyph’. The divergence of these ideographic readings from each other and from the phonetic approach used here …
Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 2
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