Janet Pierrehumbert

Biographic Data

ID755087
NAMEJanet Pierrehumbert
GIVEN NAMESJanet
FAMILY NAMEPierrehumbert
SIGNATUREPIERREHUMBERT J
AFFILIATIONSNorthwestern University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS33
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1980
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX3

  • Morphological convergence as on-line lexical analogy

    Péter Rácz, Clay Beckner et al.ARTICLELanguage2020

    The English past-tense contains pockets of variation, where regular and irregular forms compete (e.g. learned/learnt, or weaved/wove). Individuals vary considerably in the degree to which they prefer irregular forms. This paper examines the degree to which individuals may converge on their regularization patterns and preferences. We report on a novel experimental methodology, using a cooperative game involving nonce verbs. Analysis of participant…

  • Evidence for Phonological Constraints on Nuclear Accent Placement

    Open AccessJames German, James Sneed German et al.ARTICLELanguage2006Cited by: 7References: 3

    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: \nEvidence for phonological constraints on nuclear accent placement* JAMES GERMAN JANET PIERREHUMBERT STEFAN KAUFMANN Northwestern University Northwestern University Northwestern University 1

  • Joan Bybee (2001). Phonology and language use . (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 94.) Cambridge

    Open AccessJanet B Pierrehumbert, Janet PierrehumbertARTICLEPhonology2002

    The functionalist viewpoint in linguistics can take different forms. A caricature of functionalist thinking is the notion that the structure of language is optimised, or nearly so, for its function as a means of human communication. This notion has met with widespread scepticism because of its lack of predictiveness in the face of typological variation. Either it leads to the prediction that all languages are en route to some single ‘Utopian’ (ev…

  • Word Games and Syllable Structure

    Open AccessJanet B Pierrehumbert, Janet Pierrehumbert et al.ARTICLELanguage and Speech1995Cited by: 4References: 47

    The internal structure of the syllable has been a matter of long-standing debate. Some theories propose a highly articulated tree structure whose topmost constituents are the onset and the rhyme. However, much recent work in phonological theory has adopted a flatter model in which neither the onset nor the rhyme constitutes a constituent. Experiments using the novel word game paradigm developed in Treiman (1983) have been interpreted as supportin…

  • Autosegmental and metrical phonology

    Open AccessJanet B Pierrehumbert, Janet PierrehumbertARTICLEJournal of Phonetics1993References: 10

  • On ich-Laut, ach-Laut and Structure Preservation

    Open AccessTalke Macfarland, Janet B Pierrehumbert et al.ARTICLEPhonology1991

    Hall (1989) introduces a rule of Fricative Assimilation (FA) in German, which, he claims, poses a challenge to the principle of Structure Preservation in Lexical Phonology, as presented in Kiparsky (1985). This claim is based on the observation that FA is demonstrably lexical because it respects morpheme boundaries, but nonetheless introduces a nondistinctive feature, thus violating a marking condition. However, Hall has not appreciated the force…

  • The Meaning of Intonational Contours in the Interpretation of Discourse

    Janet B Pierrehumbert, Janet Pierrehumbert et al.CHAPTERIntentions in Communication1990

    Recent investigations of the contribution that intonation makes to overall utterance and discourse interpretation promise new sources of information for the investigation of long-time concerns in natural-language processing.In Hirschberg and Pierrehumbert 1986 we proposed that intonational features such as phrasing, accmt pUuttTWIt, pilch rangt, and huIe represent important sources of information about the attmh0ru3l and the rntmt10rIJAl structur…

  • Phonological and phonetic representation

    Open AccessJanet B Pierrehumbert, Janet PierrehumbertARTICLEJournal of Phonetics1990Cited by: 21References: 20

  • The Finnish Possessive Suffixes

    Janet B Pierrehumbert, Janet PierrehumbertARTICLELanguage1980Cited by: 1

    A distinctive feature of Finnish morphology is the possessive suffixes, which are found not only on possessed nouns, but also on adjectives, postpositions, and untensed verbs. Traditional grammars have taken the view that these suffixes arise through a rule of agreement with a genitive specifier, which may be subject to subsequent deletion rules. This paper shows that they are not agreement markers, but rather clitic allomorphs of the reflexive p…