Weight typology
An Optimality Theoretic approach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20344129 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bruce Morén (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 2-4 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-19 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Linguistic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0167-6318 • E-ISSN: 1613-3676 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/tlir.2003.011 |
| OpenAlex | W2043432437 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 10 |
This paper reviews the descriptive generalizations regarding segment weight, and provides an Optimality Theory (OT) analysis that both confirms and chal-lenges traditional typological expectations. Ultimately, the predictions of fac-torial ranking provide a means by which to examine the adequacy of individual OT analyses and a metric by which to re-examine our assumptions about lin-guistic patterns and the nature of phonological typology. Descriptively, weight is shown to come in two flavors, coerced and distinc-tive. Each is relevant to both consonants and vowels, and each has its own gen-eralizations – an implicational relationship between coerced weight and seg-ment sonority, but no such relationship between distinctive weight and sonority. Theoretically, the factorial ranking of a small set of constraints not only explains the descriptive generalizations, but also results in some unexpected predictions that are, in fact, empirically supported. 1
Cognitive psychology · Economics · Factorial · Linguistics · Optimality theory · Phonology · Sociology · Sonority hierarchy · Typology · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Speech Recognition and Synthesis · Artificial Intelligence
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |