Robert F Port
Biographic Data
| ID | 738211 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert F Port |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert F |
| FAMILY NAME | Port |
| SIGNATURE | PORT R F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University Bloomington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 276 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
How spoken languages work in the absence of an inventory of discrete units
Language as a Social Institution
It is proposed that a language, in a rich, high-dimensional form, is part of the cultural environment of the child learner. A language is the product of a community of speakers who develop its phonological, lexical, and phrasal patterns over many generations. The language emerges from the joint behavior of many agents in the community acting as a complex adaptive system. Its form only roughly approximates the low-dimensional structures that our t…
The reality of phonological forms
Rich memory and distributed phonology
Against Formal Phonology
Chomsky and Halle (1968) and many formal linguists rely on the notion of a universally available phonetic space defined in discrete time. This assumption plays a central role in phonological theory. Discreteness at the phonetic level guarantees the discreteness of all other levels of language. But decades of phonetics research demonstrate that there exists no universal inventory of phonetic objects. We discuss three kinds of evidence: first, phon…
Meter and speech
Mind as Motion
Mind as Motion
Rhythmic constraints on stress timing in English
The discreteness of phonetic elements and formal linguistics
Evidence for syllable structure, stress and juncture from segmental durations
Incomplete neutralization and pragmatics in German
Phonetic Linguistics
Stop Epenthesis in English
Neutralization of syllable-final voicing in German
Segmental features and implementation in acquisition of English by Arabic speakers
Cross-Language Phonetic Interference
This study compares phonetic implementation of the stop voicing contrast produced in Arabic by Saudi Arabians and by both Americans and Saudis in English. The English stops produced by Saudis manifested temporal acoustic correlates of stop voicing (VOT, stop closure duration, and vowel duration) similar to those found in Arabic stops. Despite such phonetic interference from Arabic to English, however, American listeners generally had little diffi…
On the structure of the phonetic space with special reference to speech timing
The influence of tempo on stop closure duration as a cue for voicing and place
Cross-Language Phonetic Interference
This study compares phonetic implementation of the stop voicing contrast produced in Arabic by Saudi Arabians and by both Americans and Saudis in English. The English stops produced by Saudis manifested temporal acoustic correlates of stop voicing (VOT, stop closure duration, and vowel duration) similar to those found in Arabic stops. Despite such phonetic interference from Arabic to English, however, American listeners generally had little diffi…
Neutralization of syllable-final voicing in German
Incomplete neutralization and pragmatics in German
Rhythmic constraints on stress timing in English
Against Formal Phonology
Chomsky and Halle (1968) and many formal linguists rely on the notion of a universally available phonetic space defined in discrete time. This assumption plays a central role in phonological theory. Discreteness at the phonetic level guarantees the discreteness of all other levels of language. But decades of phonetics research demonstrate that there exists no universal inventory of phonetic objects. We discuss three kinds of evidence: first, phon…
The influence of tempo on stop closure duration as a cue for voicing and place
Stop Epenthesis in English
Meter and speech
Rich memory and distributed phonology
How spoken languages work in the absence of an inventory of discrete units
Segmental features and implementation in acquisition of English by Arabic speakers
The discreteness of phonetic elements and formal linguistics
On the structure of the phonetic space with special reference to speech timing
Evidence for syllable structure, stress and juncture from segmental durations
The reality of phonological forms
The influence of tempo on stop closure duration as a cue for voicing and place
Cross-Language Phonetic Interference
This study compares phonetic implementation of the stop voicing contrast produced in Arabic by Saudi Arabians and by both Americans and Saudis in English. The English stops produced by Saudis manifested temporal acoustic correlates of stop voicing (VOT, stop closure duration, and vowel duration) similar to those found in Arabic stops. Despite such phonetic interference from Arabic to English, however, American listeners generally had little diffi…
On the structure of the phonetic space with special reference to speech timing
Segmental features and implementation in acquisition of English by Arabic speakers
Neutralization of syllable-final voicing in German
Stop Epenthesis in English
Phonetic Linguistics
Incomplete neutralization and pragmatics in German
Evidence for syllable structure, stress and juncture from segmental durations
The discreteness of phonetic elements and formal linguistics
Mind as Motion
Mind as Motion
Rhythmic constraints on stress timing in English
Meter and speech
Against Formal Phonology
Chomsky and Halle (1968) and many formal linguists rely on the notion of a universally available phonetic space defined in discrete time. This assumption plays a central role in phonological theory. Discreteness at the phonetic level guarantees the discreteness of all other levels of language. But decades of phonetics research demonstrate that there exists no universal inventory of phonetic objects. We discuss three kinds of evidence: first, phon…
Language as a Social Institution
It is proposed that a language, in a rich, high-dimensional form, is part of the cultural environment of the child learner. A language is the product of a community of speakers who develop its phonological, lexical, and phrasal patterns over many generations. The language emerges from the joint behavior of many agents in the community acting as a complex adaptive system. Its form only roughly approximates the low-dimensional structures that our t…
The reality of phonological forms
Rich memory and distributed phonology
How spoken languages work in the absence of an inventory of discrete units
Computer Science (18 works) · Linguistics (15 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (14 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Artificial Intelligence (11 works) · Speech recognition (10 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (9 works) · Artificial Intelligence (7 works) · Mathematics (7 works) · Acoustics (6 works)