Phonological Perspective Research Articles

Licensing of empty nuclei: The case of Palestinian vowel harmony

This paper attempts to provide a principled explanation of vowel harmony and three closely related phenomena, metathesis, vowel syncope and epenthesis, in Palestinian Arabic, from the perspective of governement phonology

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics II: Papers from the Second Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics

1. Acknowledgments 2. Editorial Note 3. Introduction (by Eid, Mushira) 4. I. MORPHOLOGICAL AND PHONOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES 5. Prosodic Morphology and Templatic Morphology (by McCarthy, John) 6. Doubled Verbs in Modern Standard Arabic (by Moore, John) 7. Arabic Broken Plurals: Arguments for a two-fold classification of morphology (by Ratcliffe, Robert R.) 8. Well-Formed Associations in Arabic: Rule or condition? (by Farwaneh, Samira) 9. Levantine Cyclogenesis (by Johnson, C. Douglas) 10. Epenthesis, Gemination, and Syllable Structure (by Abu-Mansour, Mahasen Hasan) 11. II. SEMANTIC PERSPECTIVES 12. Aspectual Classification of Verbs in Cairene Arabic (by Eisele, John C.) 13. Connectives as Cohesive Elements in a Modern Expository Arabic Text (by Al-Batal, Mahmoud) 14. III. SOCIOLINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVES 15. Orthographic Variation in Modern Standard Arabic: The case of the hamza (by Parkinson, Dilworth B.) 16. 'Foreigner Talk': Evidence for the universality of language simplification (by Tweissi, Adel I.) 17. Index of Subjects

Edge of constituent effects in Polish

Abundant violations of the Sonority Sequencing Generalization in Polish are studied from the perspective of prosodic phonology. We argue that word-initial and non-word-initial extrasyllabic consonants play distinct roles in the operation of phonological rules. We further claim that they are integrated prosodically by linking to the phonological word node and that this is done at different stages of derivation. Transparency of extrasyllabic consonants is also investigated. We are indebted to Michael Kenstowicz for his enlightening criticism and valuable suggestions as to the organization of this article. We are also grateful to the three anonymous reviewers for their comments that have led to the improvement of both the content and the form of this study.

Phonetic rarities in Pirahã

Pirahã is interesting from both a phonetic and a phonological perspective. While possessing an apparently simple phonemic inventory (consisting of eight consonants, three vowels and two tones) it demonstrates a great deal of variation at the phonetic level. It is the purpose of this paper to document two phonetic rarities in Pirahã, one of which, [i] has been recorded for no other language, to the knowledge of the present writer.

On so-called 'lateral [s]': some observations from palatography and spectrography.

This paper supplements certain well-known articulatory aspects of sigmatisms (lisps) with observations derived from spectrography. The five cases studied show widely differing articulations with a relatively invariant acoustic output. A phonological perspective of the problem is argued to be of relevance to therapy.