Uralic and Altaic vowel harmony
A problem for natural generative phonology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10139375 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Catherine O Ringen, Catherine Ringen (University of Iowa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 37-44 |
| Publication date | 1980-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-2267 • E-ISSN: 1469-7742 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022226700006320 |
| OpenAlex | W1981135415 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
According to Hooper (1976: 5), the theory of natural generative phonology places the strongest possible constraints on abstractness in phonological descriptions. She claims that ‘the major advantage of natural generative theory over previous theories is that it gives a realistic representation of linguistic competence by constraining the theory to allow only a small subset of the grammars allowed by the unconstrained theory’ (xi). She claims further that the subset of grammars which are consistent with the constraints of natural generative phonology (NGP) accurately represent a speaker's knowledge of his language. This paper considers how vowel harmony rules in languages such as Turkish and Hungarian would be formulated in NGP. It is argued that the analyses required by NGP for these and similar vowel harmony languages do not represent the internalized knowledge of speakers of these languages and, therefore, that such vowel harmony systems provide strong evidence against NGP
Art · Generative grammar · Harmony (color · Linguistics · Natural (archaeology · Natural language · Natural language processing · Optimality theory · Phonological rule · Phonology · Phonotactics · Rule-based machine translation · Theoretical linguistics · Turkish · Vowel · Vowel harmony · Computer Science · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,02 |
| Citation span | 1982 - 1982 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |