Gradient morphophonology
Evidence from Uyghur vowel harmony
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5850133 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adam Mccollum (0000-0002-6650-0433, University of California San Diego, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Publication date | 2019-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2377-3324 • E-ISSN: 2377-3324 |
| Publisher | Linguistic Society of America (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3765/amp.v7i0.4565 |
| OpenAlex | W2948906579 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 23 |
For the Structuralists and early Generativists (e.g. Bloomfield 1933; Chomsky & Halle 1968), all grammatical knowledge was by definition discrete and categorical. Since phonetic patterns are gradient, early work argued that phonetics was extra-grammatical. However, a significant body of work has since shown that phonetic patterns are language-specific and must constitute part of a speaker's knowledge about their language (e.g. Keating 1985). As a result, linguistic knowledge is not ontologically categorical. For other areas of the grammar, though, much work continues to assume that linguistic knowledge is categorical. In this paper, I investigate the categoricality of phonological patterns using acoustic vowel harmony data from Uyghur. By comparing subphonemic variation in Uyghur with attested patterns of phonetic reduction and interpolation, I demonstrate that gradience is not always derivable from phonetic forces. On these grounds I argue that vowel harmony, and by extension phonology, may be gradient. Furthermore, the claim that gradience plays a larger role in linguistic representations is also supported by a number of descriptive works, which suggest that gradient harmony may occur in a wide range of languages. Building on experimental, and typological evidence, I thus contend that gradience isn't restricted to phonetics, but pervades both the phonological and phonetic modules of the grammar
Categorical variable · Harmony (Music · Phonological rule · Variation (astronomy · Vowel harmony · Linguistics and Cultural Studies · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Speech Recognition and Synthesis
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |