The Segment in Phonetics and Phonology

Notes on Contributors vii
1 Introduction 1
Eric Raimy and Charles E. Cairns
Part I Is Segmentation Real? 23
2 The Segment in Articulatory Phonology 25
Carol A. Fowler
3 Beyond the Segment 44
Markus A. Pöchtrager
4 A Prosodic Theory of Vocalic Contrasts 65
Chris Golston and Wolfgang Kehrein
5 Segmentation and Pinky Extension in ASL Fingerspelling 103
Jonathan Keane, Diane Brentari, and Jason Riggle
6 Categorical Segments, Probabilistic Models 129
Kathleen Currie Hall
Part II What Are the Roles of Segments in Phonology? 147
7 The Opponent Principle in RcvP: Binarity in a Unary System 149
Harry van der Hulst
8 Why the Palatal Glide Is Not a Consonant in Japanese: A Dependency?]based Analysis 180
Kuniya Nasukawa
9 Determining Cross?]Linguistic Phonological Similarity Between Segments: The Primacy of Abstract Aspects of Similarity 199
Charles B. Chang
10 Contrast and Vowel Features 218
San Duanmu
11 The Phonetics and Phonology of Segment Classification: A Case Study of /v/ 236
Christina Bjorndahl
Part III Case Studies 251
12 The Perception of Vowel Quality and Quantity by Turkish Learners of German as a Foreign Language 253
Katharina Nimz
13 Compensatory Lengthening in Hungarian VnC Sequences: Phonetic or Phonological? 267
Mária Gósy and Robert M. Vago
14 Pari Consonant Mutation as Defective Root Node Affixation 283
Jochen Trommer
15 Templates as Affixation of Segment?]sized Units: The Case of Southern Sierra Miwok 314
Eva Zimmermann
Index 337