Substantive Bias and Natural Classes
An Empirical Approach
1st Edition
Published on 10. January 2019
XV, 122 pages
978-981-13-3534-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book offers a laboratory phonological analysis of the sonority hierarchy and natural classes in nasal harmony using an artificial grammar-learning paradigm. It is aimed at postgraduate students and linguists in general whose research interests lie in phonology, phonetics, and/or psycholinguistics. It is useful for linguists who are struggling to figure out how to effectively design an artificial phonological grammar and those who have not designed experiments on their own but would like to do so as an additional means to testing linguistic theories. This book is also a valuable resource for anyone building crosslinguistic artificial grammar paradigm resources.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Singapore
Singapore
Publishing group
Springer Singapore
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
XV, 122 p. 6 illus.
File size
2,57 MB
ISBN-13
978-981-13-3534-1 (9789811335341)
DOI
10.1007/978-981-13-3534-1
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
01/2019
Springer
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Person
Yu-Leng Lin
is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at the Feng Chia University. She received her PhD degree from the Department of Linguistics at the University of Toronto in 2016. Before joining the Feng Chia University, she served as a postdoctoral fellow in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University's Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies. Her research interests include psycholinguistics, Chinese linguistics, laboratory phonology, and sociophonetics. Her publications include a journal paper, a book chapter and conference proceedings, and she has presented her work - ranging from learning bias, speech perception and production, tonal studies, and comparative studies among Mandarin, Taiwan Southern Min, Cantonese, and English - at several international conferences.
Content
Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 An introduction to Vowel-consonant nasal harmony.- Chapter 3 Introduction to artificial goals and challenges.- Chapter 4 Experiment 1.- Chapter 5 Experiment 2: sonority effects.- Chapter 6 Conclusions.- References.- Appendix I.- Appendix II.
