Yishai Tobin
Biographic Data
| ID | 732920 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yishai Tobin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yishai |
| FAMILY NAME | Tobin |
| SIGNATURE | TOBIN Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Struggle and Compromise Between the Striving for Transparency and the Tendency for Ease of Performance in the Semiotic Phonology of Israeli Sign Language
The phonology of Israeli Sign Language (ISL), unlike the phonology of spoken Israeli Hebrew, is a semiotic phonology. The signed word is built on meaningful basic “building blocks” that function as morphophonemic units in the language. As a result, in the Semiotic Phonology of ISL the basic preference of the human factor to expend minimal physical effort (ease of performance) may conflict with the desire to reach minimal mental effort (transparen…
Processes in Post-Traumatic Dysarthria: A Longitudinal Case Study
Post-traumatic dysarthria is a motor speech disorder secondary to paresis or paralysis of the articulatory musculature induced by head trauma. It is a complex disorder which occurs as a result of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and a subsequent coma. The present study investigates the characteristics of the speech of a 23-year-old Polish male subject with TBI, 12 months post-trauma, who was comatose for three weeks. The subject was diagnosed with mo…
Phonology as Human Behavior: Applying Theory to the Clinic
This paper introduces the theory of Phonology as Human Behavior (PHB); summarizes the basic theoretical and methodological tenets of the theory; and shows how it has been used to analyze the combinatory phonology of various languages from diverse language families in general and developmental and clinical phonology in particular. The theory of PHB, developed by William Diver and his students of the Columbia School, combines aspects of the "commun…
Sociolinguistic variation in the intonation of Buenos Aires Spanish
This paper contrasts the intonation of Buenos Aires Spanish with classic Spanish according to the variables of gender and age. The corpus contains declarative, wh-question and exclamatory sentences, uttered in a repetition task by 72 native speakers, 36 males/36 females equally divided into three age groups (5–8; 18–50; 51–75). The data were analyzed using the Autosegmental Metrical model with the ToBI system adopted for Argentine Spanish. The re…
Between Grammar and Lexicon
Comparing and contrasting Optimality Theory with the Theory of Phonology as Human Behavior
In this article, Optimality Theory is first compared and contrasted with the theory of Phonology as Human Behavior of the Columbia School of linguistics from the point of view of the interaction between the opposing forces of markedness (the human factor) and faithfulness (the communication factor) integral to both theories. The theories are contrasted based on their differing theoretical and methodological (sentence-oriented versus sign-oriented…
Semiotic Grammar
The Hebrew Vowel System: Raw and Normalized Acoustic Data
It is well known that different languages use different vowel systems interms of variety and number. The Hebrew vowel system consists of five vowels /i, e, a, o, u/. The present research identified the acoustic features of the vowels produced by Hebrew speakers differing in age and sex. Ninety speakers (men, women, boys, and girls) were recorded. The vowels were presented in a nonword context that was placed in a meaningful Hebrew sentence. The d…
Phonology as Human Behavior: Theoretical Implications and Clinical Applications
The Logic of Markedness
Towards a Calculus of Meaning: Studies in Markedness, Distinctive Features and Deixis
Language Change in Child and Adult Hebrew: A Psycholinguistic Perspective
The study of language acquisition has taken on new meaning in the last decade. Now seen as part of the study of other forms of language variation across time and space, such as dialects and sociolects, and the study of pidgins and creoles, it can help to provide a new understanding of how language evolves and what directs its development. Dorit Ravid here provides a study of contemporary speakers of Hebrew, focusing in particular on inflectional …
Toward a Calculus of Meaning: Studies in markedness, distinctive features and deixis
This volume contains papers presented at a symposium in honor of Cornelis H. van Schooneveld and invited papers on the topics of invariance, markedness, distinctive feature theory and deixis. It is not a Festschrift in the usual sense of the word, but more of a collection of articles which represent a very specific way of defining and viewing language and linguistics. The specific approach presented in this volume has its origins and inspirations…
Towards a Calculus of Meaning (Studies in Functional & Structural Linguistics)
Invariance, Markedness and Distinctive Feature Analysis: A Contrastive Study of Sign Systems in English and Hebrew
This volume provides a new kind of contrastive analysis of two unrelated languages — English and Hebrew — based on the semiotic concepts of invariance, markedness and distinctive feature theory. It concentrates on linguistic forms and constructions which are remarkably different in each language despite the fact that they share the same familiar classifications and labels. Tobin demonstrates how and why traditional and modern syntactic categories…
Linguistic Influence of Polish on Joseph Conrad's Style
This linguistic analysis of Conrad's style focuses on the influence of his native Polish. An examination of his writings indicates that some of his more noticeable syntactic choices reflect the semantics inherent in the Polish morphology, such as his unusual placing of adverbs
Aspect in the English Verb: Process and Result in Language
Showing native speakers what and why they say what they do say: Awareness raising from a semiotic point of view 1
More often than not, native speakers use alternative ways to express the same linguistic or communicative function or message without being aware of why they choose one form over another. Examples of this phenomenon include: ‘Irregular’ plurals: mass/count nouns, singular‐plural agreement; ‘Quantifiers’: much/many, each/every, some/any; ‘Conditionals’: if/whether; ‘Connectives’ (indicating ‘Addition'): also/too; ‘Restrictives’: like/just ‘Adverbs…
Semiotics and Linguistics
Part 1 In search of the sign - an historical overview: the Saussurian background - linguistics and semiotics as separate disciplines, the historical connection between linguistics and the sign-oriented approach sign versus sentence - semiology versus semiotics, linguistics as part of a search for a sign-oriented method, defining linguistic semiotically, defining the linguistic sign. Part 2 Invariance - an overview: invariance and language synergy…
The Prague School and Its Legacy
The Prague School and Its Legacy: In Linguistics, Literature, Semiotics, Folklore, and the Arts
Many of the fundamental ideas of the classical Prague School have guided or inspired much of the interdisciplinary post World War II research in linguistics, literary theory, semiotics, folklore and the arts. The Prague School promoted a humanistic and functional Leitmotiv of language as an open, flexible, adaptable, and abstract system of systems used by human beings to communicate. This hommage to the Prague School presents papers in five areas…
Stress and Intonation in the Speech of Hearing-Impaired Hebrew-Speaking Children
This study was designed to compare the acoustic characteristics of lexical stress and intonation in the speech of hearing-impaired Hebrew-speaking children with those of their hearing peers and to relate these characteristics to their intelligibility. Recordings of the speech of 23 hearing-impaired children and 11 matched normally hearing children were subjected to spectrographic analysis and fundamental-frequency measurements and played to a pan…
The realization of Messianism as a semiotic system in a literary text
Description semiotique du messianisme en trois categories : 1. Le lieu, le pays d'Israel et l'exil| 2. Le temps, present et eschatologique| 3. Le symbolisme animal, la chevre blanche. Ces elements sont utilises dans un recit de S. Y. Agnon (1966), Ma'ase Ha-Ez , La Fable de la Chevre | Agnon a d'ailleurs donne son vrai sens au Messianisme dans ce recit
Foundations for a science of language
Schools of linguistics
The Hebrew Vowel System: Raw and Normalized Acoustic Data
It is well known that different languages use different vowel systems interms of variety and number. The Hebrew vowel system consists of five vowels /i, e, a, o, u/. The present research identified the acoustic features of the vowels produced by Hebrew speakers differing in age and sex. Ninety speakers (men, women, boys, and girls) were recorded. The vowels were presented in a nonword context that was placed in a meaningful Hebrew sentence. The d…
Schools of linguistics
Participation Systems, Prepositions and Deep Structure Case as Decoding Devices for Modern Hebrew
Specific aspects of deep structure case grammar (Fillmore 1968, 1969) as well as participation systems (Cohen 1975) and an analysis of modern Hebrew case (Cole 1976) are simplified, adapted, and synthesized- into an applied linguistic decoding model which could have practical application in the field of foreign language teaching in general, and reading comprehension in particular. Specific problems intermediate and advanced English-speaking stude…
Asserting one's existence in modern hebrew
The Means is the Message: On the Intranslability of a Hebrew Text
Language Teachers Should Rush in Where Good Translators Fear to Tread
In this paper we will support the basic Saussurian view that every language is an individual and independent system which is exploited in a unique, creative and specific way by speakers of that language, in order to communicate what may be termed as 'language-specific' messages, which may very well be 'untranslatable' from one language to another. Examples from Modern Hebrew will be provided on the word-formation, word, structure and discourse le…
Case morphology and language teaching revisited
In this paper aspects of two distinctly different theoretical linguistics analyses of case, (a) Deep Structure Case Grammar, a transformational generative approach and (b) Systems of Participation, a concept taken from Form Content Analysis, a Saussurian‐based, functionally oriented, nontransformational non‐generative approach, are simplified, adapted, and synthesized into an applied linguistic model to improve the reading comprehension of studen…
The realization of Messianism as a semiotic system in a literary text
Description semiotique du messianisme en trois categories : 1. Le lieu, le pays d'Israel et l'exil| 2. Le temps, present et eschatologique| 3. Le symbolisme animal, la chevre blanche. Ces elements sont utilises dans un recit de S. Y. Agnon (1966), Ma'ase Ha-Ez , La Fable de la Chevre | Agnon a d'ailleurs donne son vrai sens au Messianisme dans ce recit
Foundations for a science of language
Schools of linguistics
Stress and Intonation in the Speech of Hearing-Impaired Hebrew-Speaking Children
This study was designed to compare the acoustic characteristics of lexical stress and intonation in the speech of hearing-impaired Hebrew-speaking children with those of their hearing peers and to relate these characteristics to their intelligibility. Recordings of the speech of 23 hearing-impaired children and 11 matched normally hearing children were subjected to spectrographic analysis and fundamental-frequency measurements and played to a pan…
The Prague School and Its Legacy: In Linguistics, Literature, Semiotics, Folklore, and the Arts
Many of the fundamental ideas of the classical Prague School have guided or inspired much of the interdisciplinary post World War II research in linguistics, literary theory, semiotics, folklore and the arts. The Prague School promoted a humanistic and functional Leitmotiv of language as an open, flexible, adaptable, and abstract system of systems used by human beings to communicate. This hommage to the Prague School presents papers in five areas…
The Prague School and Its Legacy
Semiotics and Linguistics
Part 1 In search of the sign - an historical overview: the Saussurian background - linguistics and semiotics as separate disciplines, the historical connection between linguistics and the sign-oriented approach sign versus sentence - semiology versus semiotics, linguistics as part of a search for a sign-oriented method, defining linguistic semiotically, defining the linguistic sign. Part 2 Invariance - an overview: invariance and language synergy…
Showing native speakers what and why they say what they do say: Awareness raising from a semiotic point of view 1
More often than not, native speakers use alternative ways to express the same linguistic or communicative function or message without being aware of why they choose one form over another. Examples of this phenomenon include: ‘Irregular’ plurals: mass/count nouns, singular‐plural agreement; ‘Quantifiers’: much/many, each/every, some/any; ‘Conditionals’: if/whether; ‘Connectives’ (indicating ‘Addition'): also/too; ‘Restrictives’: like/just ‘Adverbs…
Toward a Calculus of Meaning: Studies in markedness, distinctive features and deixis
This volume contains papers presented at a symposium in honor of Cornelis H. van Schooneveld and invited papers on the topics of invariance, markedness, distinctive feature theory and deixis. It is not a Festschrift in the usual sense of the word, but more of a collection of articles which represent a very specific way of defining and viewing language and linguistics. The specific approach presented in this volume has its origins and inspirations…
Towards a Calculus of Meaning (Studies in Functional & Structural Linguistics)
Invariance, Markedness and Distinctive Feature Analysis: A Contrastive Study of Sign Systems in English and Hebrew
This volume provides a new kind of contrastive analysis of two unrelated languages — English and Hebrew — based on the semiotic concepts of invariance, markedness and distinctive feature theory. It concentrates on linguistic forms and constructions which are remarkably different in each language despite the fact that they share the same familiar classifications and labels. Tobin demonstrates how and why traditional and modern syntactic categories…
Linguistic Influence of Polish on Joseph Conrad's Style
This linguistic analysis of Conrad's style focuses on the influence of his native Polish. An examination of his writings indicates that some of his more noticeable syntactic choices reflect the semantics inherent in the Polish morphology, such as his unusual placing of adverbs
Aspect in the English Verb: Process and Result in Language
Language Change in Child and Adult Hebrew: A Psycholinguistic Perspective
The study of language acquisition has taken on new meaning in the last decade. Now seen as part of the study of other forms of language variation across time and space, such as dialects and sociolects, and the study of pidgins and creoles, it can help to provide a new understanding of how language evolves and what directs its development. Dorit Ravid here provides a study of contemporary speakers of Hebrew, focusing in particular on inflectional …
The Logic of Markedness
Towards a Calculus of Meaning: Studies in Markedness, Distinctive Features and Deixis
Phonology as Human Behavior: Theoretical Implications and Clinical Applications
Between Grammar and Lexicon
Comparing and contrasting Optimality Theory with the Theory of Phonology as Human Behavior
In this article, Optimality Theory is first compared and contrasted with the theory of Phonology as Human Behavior of the Columbia School of linguistics from the point of view of the interaction between the opposing forces of markedness (the human factor) and faithfulness (the communication factor) integral to both theories. The theories are contrasted based on their differing theoretical and methodological (sentence-oriented versus sign-oriented…
Semiotic Grammar
Linguistics (26 works) · Philosophy (23 works) · Computer Science (15 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Mathematics (8 works) · Hebrew (7 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (6 works) · Semiotics (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Grammar (5 works)