Robert Kirchner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3821436 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Kirchner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Kirchner |
| SIGNATURE | KIRCHNER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0138-200X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
An Effort Based Approach to Consonant Lenition
FIGURES 1-1.Possible lenition changes (from Hock 1991:83) 1-2.Opposition between LAZY and lenition-blocking constraints 2-1.Schema of force of a gesture 2-2.Inferences from equation of effort with force 2-3.Schema of computational mass-spring model of consonant constriction 2-4."Impulse" restriction on mass-spring model 2-5.Force and displacement vs. time graphs for a singleton stop and fricative 2-6.Force and displacement vs. time graph for a ge…
Computing phonological generalization over real speech exemplars
A Level Playing-Field
To explain why English compounds generally avoid internal inflectional suffixation (e.g., key-chain rather than keys-chain ), linguists have often invoked the Level Ordering Hypothesis, that is, that particular types of morphology, in this case inflectional suffixation, are derivationally ordered after compounding. However, a broad range of counter-examples and conceptual objections to Level Ordering have emerged. We propose an alternative accoun…
Phonetically Based Phonology
Phonetically Based Phonology is centred around the hypothesis that phonologies of languages are determined by phonetic principles; that is, phonetic patterns involving ease of articulation and perception are expressed linguistically as grammatical constraints. This book brings together a team of scholars to provide a wide-ranging study of phonetically based phonology. It investigates the role of phonetics in many phonological phenomena - such as …
April McMahon (2000). Change, chance, and optimality. Oxford
It is generally acknowledged, by both its proponents and detractors, that Optimality Theory has provoked a reexamination, in recent years, of the role of functional considerations, and their typological reflexes, in phonological theory. April McMahon's Change, chance, and optimality attempts an in-depth examination of this issue, particularly from the perspective of the relation between synchrony and diachrony in linguistic theory. The issue, and…
Geminate Inalterability and Lenition
It is a familiar observation that phonological processes frequently fail to apply to geminates. A number of previous proposals attempted to account for these geminate inalterability effects in terms of a distinction between singly and multiply linked autosegments. Subsequent research, however, has observed that geminate inalterability is inviolable only in the domain of lenition processes. In this article, an account of this generalization is cou…
Contrastiveness and faithfulness
A fundamental observation of phonological theory is that, out of the rich sound signal of speech, a small subset of phonetic properties is contrastive in any given language. Standardly, this observation is captured by excluding the non-distinctive phonetic properties from some levels of representation, yielding an abstract categorical representation of the contrasts among the speech sounds. Universally non-contrastive features have generally been…
Contrastiveness Is an Epiphenomenon of Constraint Ranking
Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Historical Issues in Sociolinguistics/Social Issues in Historical Linguistics (1995)
An experimental analysis of a program to reduce retail theft
A program for elementary school-aged youth, designed for and implemented by a retail business, was evaluated. The program included visual instructions to youth, tokens (exchangeable for special prizes) for appropriate verbal behavior, visual feedback to youth, and rewards for reducing merchandise loss, all continued to a criterion level. A 54% reduction in losses of popular youth merchandise was achieved
Outcome measures of police performance
Innovative training programs can provide police departments with junior officers who have demonstrated competency in a large number of specific police skills. Lacking measures of field performance and programs to maintain performance standards, the ultimate effectiveness of training cannot be assessed. Process measures of performance are generally too obtrusive and disruptive to be useful. Outcome measures are less obtrusive. Such measures can sa…
An Effort Based Approach to Consonant Lenition
FIGURES 1-1.Possible lenition changes (from Hock 1991:83) 1-2.Opposition between LAZY and lenition-blocking constraints 2-1.Schema of force of a gesture 2-2.Inferences from equation of effort with force 2-3.Schema of computational mass-spring model of consonant constriction 2-4."Impulse" restriction on mass-spring model 2-5.Force and displacement vs. time graphs for a singleton stop and fricative 2-6.Force and displacement vs. time graph for a ge…
Geminate Inalterability and Lenition
It is a familiar observation that phonological processes frequently fail to apply to geminates. A number of previous proposals attempted to account for these geminate inalterability effects in terms of a distinction between singly and multiply linked autosegments. Subsequent research, however, has observed that geminate inalterability is inviolable only in the domain of lenition processes. In this article, an account of this generalization is cou…
Computing phonological generalization over real speech exemplars
An experimental analysis of a program to reduce retail theft
A program for elementary school-aged youth, designed for and implemented by a retail business, was evaluated. The program included visual instructions to youth, tokens (exchangeable for special prizes) for appropriate verbal behavior, visual feedback to youth, and rewards for reducing merchandise loss, all continued to a criterion level. A 54% reduction in losses of popular youth merchandise was achieved
An experimental analysis of a program to reduce retail theft
A program for elementary school-aged youth, designed for and implemented by a retail business, was evaluated. The program included visual instructions to youth, tokens (exchangeable for special prizes) for appropriate verbal behavior, visual feedback to youth, and rewards for reducing merchandise loss, all continued to a criterion level. A 54% reduction in losses of popular youth merchandise was achieved
Outcome measures of police performance
Innovative training programs can provide police departments with junior officers who have demonstrated competency in a large number of specific police skills. Lacking measures of field performance and programs to maintain performance standards, the ultimate effectiveness of training cannot be assessed. Process measures of performance are generally too obtrusive and disruptive to be useful. Outcome measures are less obtrusive. Such measures can sa…
Contrastiveness Is an Epiphenomenon of Constraint Ranking
Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Historical Issues in Sociolinguistics/Social Issues in Historical Linguistics (1995)
Contrastiveness and faithfulness
A fundamental observation of phonological theory is that, out of the rich sound signal of speech, a small subset of phonetic properties is contrastive in any given language. Standardly, this observation is captured by excluding the non-distinctive phonetic properties from some levels of representation, yielding an abstract categorical representation of the contrasts among the speech sounds. Universally non-contrastive features have generally been…
Geminate Inalterability and Lenition
It is a familiar observation that phonological processes frequently fail to apply to geminates. A number of previous proposals attempted to account for these geminate inalterability effects in terms of a distinction between singly and multiply linked autosegments. Subsequent research, however, has observed that geminate inalterability is inviolable only in the domain of lenition processes. In this article, an account of this generalization is cou…
April McMahon (2000). Change, chance, and optimality. Oxford
It is generally acknowledged, by both its proponents and detractors, that Optimality Theory has provoked a reexamination, in recent years, of the role of functional considerations, and their typological reflexes, in phonological theory. April McMahon's Change, chance, and optimality attempts an in-depth examination of this issue, particularly from the perspective of the relation between synchrony and diachrony in linguistic theory. The issue, and…
Phonetically Based Phonology
Phonetically Based Phonology is centred around the hypothesis that phonologies of languages are determined by phonetic principles; that is, phonetic patterns involving ease of articulation and perception are expressed linguistically as grammatical constraints. This book brings together a team of scholars to provide a wide-ranging study of phonetically based phonology. It investigates the role of phonetics in many phonological phenomena - such as …
A Level Playing-Field
To explain why English compounds generally avoid internal inflectional suffixation (e.g., key-chain rather than keys-chain ), linguists have often invoked the Level Ordering Hypothesis, that is, that particular types of morphology, in this case inflectional suffixation, are derivationally ordered after compounding. However, a broad range of counter-examples and conceptual objections to Level Ordering have emerged. We propose an alternative accoun…
Computing phonological generalization over real speech exemplars
An Effort Based Approach to Consonant Lenition
FIGURES 1-1.Possible lenition changes (from Hock 1991:83) 1-2.Opposition between LAZY and lenition-blocking constraints 2-1.Schema of force of a gesture 2-2.Inferences from equation of effort with force 2-3.Schema of computational mass-spring model of consonant constriction 2-4."Impulse" restriction on mass-spring model 2-5.Force and displacement vs. time graphs for a singleton stop and fricative 2-6.Force and displacement vs. time graph for a ge…
Linguistics (7 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Phonology (4 works) · Speech Recognition and Synthesis (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works)