John G Fought
Biographic Data
| ID | 94017 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John G Fought |
| GIVEN NAMES | John G |
| FAMILY NAME | Fought |
| SIGNATURE | FOUGHT J G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Diamond Bar, Calif. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
History of Linguistics, Vol. 2
A Phonetic and Morphological Interpretation of Zimmermann ́s Affix 61 in the Maya Hieroglyphic Codices
In this paper I propose a decipherment of Zimmermann’s affix 61 as -al when subfixed or postfixed to a main sign in the codices. The 102 glyph groups listed in the figures below include all the codical occurrences of 61 and one example from Linda’s Relación. Affix 61 is the so-called ‘bundle’ affix, which Gates called the ‘table of honor glyph’. The divergence of these ideographic readings from each other and from the phonetic approach used here …
Warm Climates and Sonority Classes
Previous research has shown that speakers in warm-climate languages make use of relatively more vowels, and speakers in cold-climate languages relatively more consonants. The high sonority (audibility) of the vowel, and its adaptive value under certain conditions, have been invoked to account for its greater frequency in warmer climates. We show here, however, that the above generalization is over-broad, and that sound classes vary across climate…
Response to Ember and Ember's “Climate, Econiche, and Sexuality
Sonority and Climate in a World Sample of Languages
In a world sample (N = 60), the indigenous languages of tropical and subtropical climates in contrast to the languages spoken in temperate and cold zones manifested high levels of sonority. High sonority in phonetic segments, as found for example in vowels (versus consonants), increases the carrying power of speech sounds and, hence, audibility at a distance. We assume that in the course of daily activities, the speakers in warm/hot climates (a) …
Leonard bloomfield's linguistic legacy
Leonard Bloomfield's system of linguistics was recast by his colleagues and students. His morphophonemic phonology influenced Chomsky's early generative phonology. His version of Wundt's psychologically based immediate constituent analysis was adopted by the distributionalists, and later also by the Chomskyans, each for different reasons. His descriptive semantics was left out of American linguistics except for some linguistic anthropologists who…
Linguistic Anthropology
Rule Ordering, Interference, and Free Alternation in Phonology
Attempts to justify the principle of asymmetrical ordering have failed to consider some of the alternative relations among phonological rules and have ignored the problems raised by free alternation. Many free alternation patterns, like the i/y/iy, u/v/uv of Sanskrit and the complex vowel sequence alternations of Chorti (Mayan), cannot be generated economically by rules applicable only in fixed linear or cyclical order, but can be by rules applic…
On the Adequacy of Recent Phonological Theories and Practices
Sonority and Climate in a World Sample of Languages
In a world sample (N = 60), the indigenous languages of tropical and subtropical climates in contrast to the languages spoken in temperate and cold zones manifested high levels of sonority. High sonority in phonetic segments, as found for example in vowels (versus consonants), increases the carrying power of speech sounds and, hence, audibility at a distance. We assume that in the course of daily activities, the speakers in warm/hot climates (a) …
Leonard bloomfield's linguistic legacy
Leonard Bloomfield's system of linguistics was recast by his colleagues and students. His morphophonemic phonology influenced Chomsky's early generative phonology. His version of Wundt's psychologically based immediate constituent analysis was adopted by the distributionalists, and later also by the Chomskyans, each for different reasons. His descriptive semantics was left out of American linguistics except for some linguistic anthropologists who…
Warm Climates and Sonority Classes
Previous research has shown that speakers in warm-climate languages make use of relatively more vowels, and speakers in cold-climate languages relatively more consonants. The high sonority (audibility) of the vowel, and its adaptive value under certain conditions, have been invoked to account for its greater frequency in warmer climates. We show here, however, that the above generalization is over-broad, and that sound classes vary across climate…
On the Adequacy of Recent Phonological Theories and Practices
Rule Ordering, Interference, and Free Alternation in Phonology
Attempts to justify the principle of asymmetrical ordering have failed to consider some of the alternative relations among phonological rules and have ignored the problems raised by free alternation. Many free alternation patterns, like the i/y/iy, u/v/uv of Sanskrit and the complex vowel sequence alternations of Chorti (Mayan), cannot be generated economically by rules applicable only in fixed linear or cyclical order, but can be by rules applic…
On the Adequacy of Recent Phonological Theories and Practices
Linguistic Anthropology
Leonard bloomfield's linguistic legacy
Leonard Bloomfield's system of linguistics was recast by his colleagues and students. His morphophonemic phonology influenced Chomsky's early generative phonology. His version of Wundt's psychologically based immediate constituent analysis was adopted by the distributionalists, and later also by the Chomskyans, each for different reasons. His descriptive semantics was left out of American linguistics except for some linguistic anthropologists who…
Sonority and Climate in a World Sample of Languages
In a world sample (N = 60), the indigenous languages of tropical and subtropical climates in contrast to the languages spoken in temperate and cold zones manifested high levels of sonority. High sonority in phonetic segments, as found for example in vowels (versus consonants), increases the carrying power of speech sounds and, hence, audibility at a distance. We assume that in the course of daily activities, the speakers in warm/hot climates (a) …
Response to Ember and Ember's “Climate, Econiche, and Sexuality
Warm Climates and Sonority Classes
Previous research has shown that speakers in warm-climate languages make use of relatively more vowels, and speakers in cold-climate languages relatively more consonants. The high sonority (audibility) of the vowel, and its adaptive value under certain conditions, have been invoked to account for its greater frequency in warmer climates. We show here, however, that the above generalization is over-broad, and that sound classes vary across climate…
A Phonetic and Morphological Interpretation of Zimmermann ́s Affix 61 in the Maya Hieroglyphic Codices
In this paper I propose a decipherment of Zimmermann’s affix 61 as -al when subfixed or postfixed to a main sign in the codices. The 102 glyph groups listed in the figures below include all the codical occurrences of 61 and one example from Linda’s Relación. Affix 61 is the so-called ‘bundle’ affix, which Gates called the ‘table of honor glyph’. The divergence of these ideographic readings from each other and from the phonetic approach used here …
History of Linguistics, Vol. 2
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