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Representation-based models in the current landscape of phonological theory

Year: 2020

Type: article

Abstract: We place the healthy diversity of current (i.e., early 21st-century) phonological theory under scrutiny, and identify the four fundamental approaches that make it up: Rule-Based Phonology, Representation-Based Phonology, Constraint-Based Phonology, and Usage-Based Phonology. We then focus on the key aspects of and recent developments in Representation-Based Phonology: we separate out hybrid models and purely representational ones, we identify Government Phonology (GP) as the most popular form of the latter (and show that it is even present in what we call ‘GP-friendly’ analyses), and finally, we discuss and illustrate recent innovations in both subsegmental and prosodic structure in the two strands that we identify as ‘hyperhierarchical’ (or ‘vertical’) and ‘flat’ (or ‘horizontal’).

Source: Acta Linguistica Academica

DOI: 10.1556/2062.2020.00002

Authors: Katalin Balogné Bérces, Patrick Honeybone

Institutions: Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Catholic University in Ruzomberok, University of Edinburgh

Language: English

Topic: Phonetics and Phonology Research

Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funders: University of Edinburgh, Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem

OpenAlex ID: W3020845720