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Derived environment effects and logarithmic perception

Year: 2018

Type: article

Abstract: Phonologically-derived environment effects (henceforth, PDEEs) describe patterns where a phonological process P applies only if accompanied by another phonological process P’. This paper proposed that PDEEs follow from the hypothesis that the input-output distance is perceived logarithmically: this predicts that a feature change may be less salient perceptually and therefore represent a smaller violation of faithfulness if accompanied by another feature change. This theory has two desirable consequences: (i) it reconciles the analysis of PDEEs with the hypothesis of a preference for minimal input-output changes in phonological grammar and (ii) it derives a number of constraints on the features that can interact in PDEEs, therefore providing a restrictive account of the typology.

Source: Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology

DOI: 10.3765/amp.v5i0.4229

Author: Benjamin Storme

Institutions: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Structures Formelles du Langage

Language: English

Topic: Phonetics and Phonology Research

Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: Agence Nationale de la Recherche

Award: Cognitive Sciences: Humanities, Literature, Culture, and Embodiment