Tobias Scheer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1009517 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tobias Scheer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tobias |
| FAMILY NAME | Scheer |
| SIGNATURE | SCHEER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Côte d'Azur |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4824-2610 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Non-final final consonants in the Croissant
This article discusses data from a Romance variety spoken in the linguistic region of France referred to as the Croissant. When roots in this language exhibit a phonologically problematic right edge, the problem is treated differently depending on whether the stem is nominal or verbal. We propose that this unequal treatment reflects an underlying distinction: seemingly unsuffixed verbs are in fact underlyingly suffixed, whereas nouns are truly un…
Glottal stop insertion and production planning domains in French
The article introduces an experimental study of glottal stops that are generated by h aspiré (H) in French ( il [ʔ] hoche la tête ). To date the phenomenon is merely mentioned in passing, and evidence only comes from native speaker intuitions and cursory personal observation. Participants pronounced verbs that either did ( hocher ) or did not ( aimer ) begin with an H, whereby the left context was controlled for: the preceding word could end in a…
X Phonology
What does it take to run a full substance-free phonology (SFP)? Because in classical approaches only items below the skeleton have phonetic properties that, according to SFP, need to be expunged, current work in SFP only ever concerns segmental aspects. If substance is removed from segmental representation and primes and computation are therefore arbitrary, the non-trivial question arises: how can such a system communicate with a system where pri…
Grande Grammaire Historique du Français (GGHF)
International audience
Elastic s+C and Left-moving Yod in the Evolution from Latin to French
Elastic s+C is the idea that s+C clusters are heterosyllabic by default in all languages, and that some repair will occur in case, pending on language-specific circumstances, a heterosyllabic parse is illegal (preceding long vowel, preceding coda, beginning of the word). The repair at hand is the branching of the s on the following empty nucleus. This generalization is derived from the behaviour of left-moving yod in the diachronic evolution from…
Sonority Is Different
The paper argues that sonority on the one hand and other segmental properties such as place of articulation (labiality etc.) and laryngeal properties (voicing etc.) on the other hand are different in kind and must therefore not be represented alike: implementations on a par e.g. as features ([voc], [son], [lab], [voice] etc.) are misled. Arguments come from a number of broad, cross-linguistically stable facts concerning visibility of items below …
On the Difference between the Lexicon and Computation (Regarding Slavic Yers)
This article discusses three concerns regarding Becker and Gouskova's (2016) analysis of Russian yers that relies on cluster-based yer vocalization and two sublexicons (morphemes with and without yers), to which lexically specific constraints refer. First, it misses the basic generalization about Slavic yers expressed by the established analysis (Lower): yer vocalization is triggered by five different mechanisms, instead of one mechanism under Lo…
Melody-free syntax and phonologically conditioned allomorphy
Phonologies contemporaines
et de quelque manire que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord pralable et crit de l'diteur, en dehors des cas prvus par la lgislation en vigueur en France. Il est prcis que son stockage dans une base de donnes est galement interdit
Modular PIC
This article argues that there can only be one chunk-defining device in grammar: a theory cannot afford to have the same work done twice, once by phases, a second time by prosodic constituency. As it stands, however, phase theory is unable to describe all phonologically relevant chunks; these are too small and too diverse to be delineated. To qualify as the only chunk-defining device in grammar, phase theory therefore needs to be made more flexib…
Why phonology is flat
Direct Interface and One-Channel Translation
Following up on the Guide to Morphosyntax-Phonology Interface Theories (2011), written from a theory-neutral point of view, this book lays out the author’s approach to the representational side of the interface. The book is thus about how information is transmitted to phonology when an object is inserted into phonological representations (as opposed to the derivational means, i.e. phase theory today). The idea of Direct Interface is that diacriti…
Invariant syllable skeleton, complex segments and word edges
San Duanmu's Syllable Structure: The Limits of Variation raises a number of questions that are of general interest for phonological theory. Of special interest here are: the genesis and management of linearity in complex segments, the place of analogy (or paradigm uniformity) in grammar, the role of morphology in accounting for phonological patterns, the balance of static (distributional patterns) and dynamic (phonological processes) evidence for…
Slavic Yers
Yers is the name given to two vowels of Common Slavic (CS) that represent Indo‐European short i (CS vƅidova = Lat. vidua ‘widow’) and short u (CS d va = Lat. duo ‘two’), which is also the value that they had in CS. Textbook descriptions hold that by the end of the CS period, i.e. around the ninth century, ƅ and first became centralized and extra short, before being lost altogether in certain positions. They appear in Old Church Slavonic documents…
The Coda Mirror V2
This article further develops Coda Mirror theory (Sgral-Scheer 2001a): its shortcomings are identified (overgeneration: the super-weak position predicted has no empirical echo, and the four-way parametric situation predicted in domain-final position is confronted with only two attested configurations), and a solution is proposed by dispensing with the equal-rightedness of government and licensing. Government over licensing is the principle propos…
How to marry (structuralist) contrast and (generative) processing
What OT is, and what it is not
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Lenition and Fortition
There are books on tone, coronals, the internal structure of segments, vowel harmony, and a couple of other topics in phonology. This book aims to fill the gap for Lenition and Fortition, which is one of the first phenomena that was addressed by phonologists in the 19th century, and ever since contributed to phonological thinking. It is certainly one of the core phenomena that is found in the phonology of natural language: together with assimilat…
Unified representations for stress and the syllable
We argue that there is no need to split phonological representations into two worlds: one syllabic and another in which word stress is calculated. We show that both syllable- and stress-related phenomena can be accounted for with a single set of representations, if traditional syllabic analysis is modified in one central respect: what is traditionally taken to be a coda–onset cluster is interpreted as two independent onsets enclosing an empty nuc…
A Lateral Theory of Phonology
This book presents a development of Jean Lowenstamm's idea that phonological constituent structure can be reduced to a strict sequence of non-branching Onsets and non-branching Nuclei. The approach at hand is known as 'CVCV', and emerged from Government Phonology. Since its very beginnings in the early 80s, the central claim of this theory has been that syllable-based generalisations are due to lateral relations among constituents, rather than to…
Présentation du volume. En quoi la phonologie est vraiment différente
est un objet qu'on peut tudier sparment
Le corpus heuristique
Le présent article met en évidence deux fonctions distinctes du corpus : heuristique et validante. Chacun connaît la seconde : un corpus est utilisé afin de démontrer la plausibilité ou la véracité d'une hypothèse qui a une existence indépendante. A la différence de celle-ci, la première fonction montre, plutôt qu’elle ne démontre. Le linguiste ne cherche plus ici à convaincre ; il cherche à comprendre. Il part à la rencontre de l'inconnu avec un…
How Minimal Is Phonological Chance
L'A. s'interroge dans cet article sur la pratique repandue en phonologie historique de proposer des stades intermediaires dans l'evolution entre deux formes linguistiques non-successives, mais dont le rapport est corrobore par l'existence de preuves dialectales independantes et/ou migrationnelles. Il tente de determiner dans quelle mesure l'atomisme diachronique peut etre pris en compte et jusqu'ou on peut le pousser. Le cadre theorique employe d…
La coda-miroir
De facon reguliere dans un grand nombre de langues sans lien genetique, une consonne situee apres une consonne (heterosyllabique) ou a l'initiale se maintient voire se renforce tandis qu'elle est, a l'intervocalique et en Coda, typiquement exposee a des lenitions diverses. La position « forte » {C, #}― est le symetrique de la Coda ―{C #}, d'ou la denomination « Coda-Miroir » employee pour la designer. Le modele syllabique « CVCV » qui ne fait app…
A unified model of Proper Government
This article aims at unifying the various devices handling vowel-zero alternations in Government Phonology. Two sets of data are analysed: French schwa-zero and Czech [E]-zero alternations. It is shown that both function identically with respect to the number of consonants that surround the alternation site. The standard analysis requires four different theoretical devices in order to account for those alternations, that is Proper Government, Con…
Modular PIC
This article argues that there can only be one chunk-defining device in grammar: a theory cannot afford to have the same work done twice, once by phases, a second time by prosodic constituency. As it stands, however, phase theory is unable to describe all phonologically relevant chunks; these are too small and too diverse to be delineated. To qualify as the only chunk-defining device in grammar, phase theory therefore needs to be made more flexib…
Melody-free syntax and phonologically conditioned allomorphy
How to marry (structuralist) contrast and (generative) processing
On the Difference between the Lexicon and Computation (Regarding Slavic Yers)
This article discusses three concerns regarding Becker and Gouskova's (2016) analysis of Russian yers that relies on cluster-based yer vocalization and two sublexicons (morphemes with and without yers), to which lexically specific constraints refer. First, it misses the basic generalization about Slavic yers expressed by the established analysis (Lower): yer vocalization is triggered by five different mechanisms, instead of one mechanism under Lo…
What OT is, and what it is not
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A unified model of Proper Government
This article aims at unifying the various devices handling vowel-zero alternations in Government Phonology. Two sets of data are analysed: French schwa-zero and Czech [E]-zero alternations. It is shown that both function identically with respect to the number of consonants that surround the alternation site. The standard analysis requires four different theoretical devices in order to account for those alternations, that is Proper Government, Con…
La coda-miroir
De facon reguliere dans un grand nombre de langues sans lien genetique, une consonne situee apres une consonne (heterosyllabique) ou a l'initiale se maintient voire se renforce tandis qu'elle est, a l'intervocalique et en Coda, typiquement exposee a des lenitions diverses. La position « forte » {C, #}― est le symetrique de la Coda ―{C #}, d'ou la denomination « Coda-Miroir » employee pour la designer. Le modele syllabique « CVCV » qui ne fait app…
A Lateral Theory of Phonology
This book presents a development of Jean Lowenstamm's idea that phonological constituent structure can be reduced to a strict sequence of non-branching Onsets and non-branching Nuclei. The approach at hand is known as 'CVCV', and emerged from Government Phonology. Since its very beginnings in the early 80s, the central claim of this theory has been that syllable-based generalisations are due to lateral relations among constituents, rather than to…
Présentation du volume. En quoi la phonologie est vraiment différente
est un objet qu'on peut tudier sparment
Le corpus heuristique
Le présent article met en évidence deux fonctions distinctes du corpus : heuristique et validante. Chacun connaît la seconde : un corpus est utilisé afin de démontrer la plausibilité ou la véracité d'une hypothèse qui a une existence indépendante. A la différence de celle-ci, la première fonction montre, plutôt qu’elle ne démontre. Le linguiste ne cherche plus ici à convaincre ; il cherche à comprendre. Il part à la rencontre de l'inconnu avec un…
How Minimal Is Phonological Chance
L'A. s'interroge dans cet article sur la pratique repandue en phonologie historique de proposer des stades intermediaires dans l'evolution entre deux formes linguistiques non-successives, mais dont le rapport est corrobore par l'existence de preuves dialectales independantes et/ou migrationnelles. Il tente de determiner dans quelle mesure l'atomisme diachronique peut etre pris en compte et jusqu'ou on peut le pousser. Le cadre theorique employe d…
Unified representations for stress and the syllable
We argue that there is no need to split phonological representations into two worlds: one syllabic and another in which word stress is calculated. We show that both syllable- and stress-related phenomena can be accounted for with a single set of representations, if traditional syllabic analysis is modified in one central respect: what is traditionally taken to be a coda–onset cluster is interpreted as two independent onsets enclosing an empty nuc…
Lenition and Fortition
There are books on tone, coronals, the internal structure of segments, vowel harmony, and a couple of other topics in phonology. This book aims to fill the gap for Lenition and Fortition, which is one of the first phenomena that was addressed by phonologists in the 19th century, and ever since contributed to phonological thinking. It is certainly one of the core phenomena that is found in the phonology of natural language: together with assimilat…
What OT is, and what it is not
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Coda Mirror V2
This article further develops Coda Mirror theory (Sgral-Scheer 2001a): its shortcomings are identified (overgeneration: the super-weak position predicted has no empirical echo, and the four-way parametric situation predicted in domain-final position is confronted with only two attested configurations), and a solution is proposed by dispensing with the equal-rightedness of government and licensing. Government over licensing is the principle propos…
How to marry (structuralist) contrast and (generative) processing
Slavic Yers
Yers is the name given to two vowels of Common Slavic (CS) that represent Indo‐European short i (CS vƅidova = Lat. vidua ‘widow’) and short u (CS d va = Lat. duo ‘two’), which is also the value that they had in CS. Textbook descriptions hold that by the end of the CS period, i.e. around the ninth century, ƅ and first became centralized and extra short, before being lost altogether in certain positions. They appear in Old Church Slavonic documents…
Direct Interface and One-Channel Translation
Following up on the Guide to Morphosyntax-Phonology Interface Theories (2011), written from a theory-neutral point of view, this book lays out the author’s approach to the representational side of the interface. The book is thus about how information is transmitted to phonology when an object is inserted into phonological representations (as opposed to the derivational means, i.e. phase theory today). The idea of Direct Interface is that diacriti…
Invariant syllable skeleton, complex segments and word edges
San Duanmu's Syllable Structure: The Limits of Variation raises a number of questions that are of general interest for phonological theory. Of special interest here are: the genesis and management of linearity in complex segments, the place of analogy (or paradigm uniformity) in grammar, the role of morphology in accounting for phonological patterns, the balance of static (distributional patterns) and dynamic (phonological processes) evidence for…
Why phonology is flat
Phonologies contemporaines
et de quelque manire que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord pralable et crit de l'diteur, en dehors des cas prvus par la lgislation en vigueur en France. Il est prcis que son stockage dans une base de donnes est galement interdit
Modular PIC
This article argues that there can only be one chunk-defining device in grammar: a theory cannot afford to have the same work done twice, once by phases, a second time by prosodic constituency. As it stands, however, phase theory is unable to describe all phonologically relevant chunks; these are too small and too diverse to be delineated. To qualify as the only chunk-defining device in grammar, phase theory therefore needs to be made more flexib…
Melody-free syntax and phonologically conditioned allomorphy
Sonority Is Different
The paper argues that sonority on the one hand and other segmental properties such as place of articulation (labiality etc.) and laryngeal properties (voicing etc.) on the other hand are different in kind and must therefore not be represented alike: implementations on a par e.g. as features ([voc], [son], [lab], [voice] etc.) are misled. Arguments come from a number of broad, cross-linguistically stable facts concerning visibility of items below …
On the Difference between the Lexicon and Computation (Regarding Slavic Yers)
This article discusses three concerns regarding Becker and Gouskova's (2016) analysis of Russian yers that relies on cluster-based yer vocalization and two sublexicons (morphemes with and without yers), to which lexically specific constraints refer. First, it misses the basic generalization about Slavic yers expressed by the established analysis (Lower): yer vocalization is triggered by five different mechanisms, instead of one mechanism under Lo…
Grande Grammaire Historique du Français (GGHF)
International audience
Elastic s+C and Left-moving Yod in the Evolution from Latin to French
Elastic s+C is the idea that s+C clusters are heterosyllabic by default in all languages, and that some repair will occur in case, pending on language-specific circumstances, a heterosyllabic parse is illegal (preceding long vowel, preceding coda, beginning of the word). The repair at hand is the branching of the s on the following empty nucleus. This generalization is derived from the behaviour of left-moving yod in the diachronic evolution from…
X Phonology
What does it take to run a full substance-free phonology (SFP)? Because in classical approaches only items below the skeleton have phonetic properties that, according to SFP, need to be expunged, current work in SFP only ever concerns segmental aspects. If substance is removed from segmental representation and primes and computation are therefore arbitrary, the non-trivial question arises: how can such a system communicate with a system where pri…
Glottal stop insertion and production planning domains in French
The article introduces an experimental study of glottal stops that are generated by h aspiré (H) in French ( il [ʔ] hoche la tête ). To date the phenomenon is merely mentioned in passing, and evidence only comes from native speaker intuitions and cursory personal observation. Participants pronounced verbs that either did ( hocher ) or did not ( aimer ) begin with an H, whereby the left context was controlled for: the preceding word could end in a…
Non-final final consonants in the Croissant
This article discusses data from a Romance variety spoken in the linguistic region of France referred to as the Croissant. When roots in this language exhibit a phonologically problematic right edge, the problem is treated differently depending on whether the stem is nominal or verbal. We propose that this unequal treatment reflects an underlying distinction: seemingly unsuffixed verbs are in fact underlyingly suffixed, whereas nouns are truly un…
Philosophy (21 works) · Linguistics (20 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (17 works) · Computer Science (15 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (13 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (12 works) · Mathematics (8 works) · Phonology (7 works) · Syllable (6 works) · Natural language processing (5 works)