Phonological Targets and Unmarked Structures
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2902473 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Haiman (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1972 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 365 |
| Publication date | 1972-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/412140 |
| OpenAlex | W2011220020 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 5 |
Three formally unrelated conditions in the phonology of Turkish ensure that no non-initial syllable in native words will have the nuclear vowel o or ö. Far from being arbitrary, this constraint, a phonological target in Turkish, produces a result that is compatible with a target in a number of unrelated languages, among them Russian and Romantsch. It is suggested that ‘universal’ or widely shared targets are often, if not always, maximally unmarked structures, and that the means languages employ to satisfy such targets may vary. But if these means are idiosyncratic, they will generally reflect structural peculiarities of the languages involved
Linguistics · Phonology · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Speech Recognition and Synthesis
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2026 (30) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |