Dependence of sound change naturalness in sound change conclusion notes the phonological basis of sound change the handbook of historical linguistics wiley online library. Contactinduced change has become more respectable in syntax and semantics as well. Object and methods of inquiry routledge handbook chapter, kiparsky week preliminaries, i tu object and methods of inquiry, cont. Labov, sound change, and phonological theory kiparsky. To appear in paul boersma, marc van oostendorp, ben hermans, and wolfgang kehrein ed. Using the tolerance principle to predict phonological change volume 31 issue 1 betsy sneller, josef fruehwald, charles yang. Another interesting read for those wishing to consider alternate views on analogy as a language change process kiparsky, paul. Allophones can become independent phonemes when their conditioning environment is lost. He is the son of the russianborn linguist and slavicist valentin kiparsky. Kiparsky, paul 1982 lexical morphology and phonology. Reference in this chapter to other works published since. Introduction one of the longeststanding maxims of linguistic thought is that childrens language provides a source for language change. Kiparsky ar grundare av lexical phonology and morphology och en kand panini. University of groningen phonological grammar and frequency.
Analogical change as a problem for linguistic theory. Language acquisition and phonological change paul foulkes and marilyn vihman university of york 1. Winters law, a similar law operating in baltoslavic. Lachmanns law is a somewhat disputed phonological sound law for latin named after german indoeuropeanist karl lachmann who first formulated it sometime in the middle of the 19th century. His work throughout the 1960s on phonological and morphological change led kiparsky to assess the relationship between phonology and morphology more. In contemporary terms, it is the diachronic analogue to the problem of opacity in synchronic phonology. This phenomenon constitutes a longstanding theoretical problem. Evolutionary phonology seeks to derive typological generalizations from recurrent patterns of language change, themselves. This was the research program launched by kiparsky in. One could point to the development of metrical phonology based on the traditional notions foot and meter, work.
Labov, sound change, and phonological theory kiparsky 2016. For some analysts, the phenomenon of sound change also encompasses phonological change with other origins, such as dialect contact, paradigm regularization, or structural simpli. I further argue that external evidence from change, dispersion, poetic conventions, and language games supports lphonemic representations rather than classical phonemic representations. Paul kiparsky, stanford university, linguistics department, faculty member. The following handbooks can be consulted for overview articles on phonological change. Schedule of topics and readings subject to change week introduction tu intro to course routledge handbook chapter, lass. Further implications of lexical phonology for phonological change will be examined in the next section. Phonological representation and the quantitative study of. There are several things that this approach cannot explain. Types of sound change andras cser pazmany peter catholic university cser. The structuralists explained the phonologization of allophones by locating sound change outside of phonology. On the phonological basis of sound change after hopkins.
Pdf new perspectives on historical linguistics paul kiparsky. Available formats pdf please select a format to send. Wordformation and the lexicon paul kiparsky massachusetts institute of technology according to a widespread view the lexicon is a kind of appentlix to the grammar, whose function is list what unpredi. Whenever it happens, it forms a reallife phonological experiment. In that case the assumption that we are dealing with an example of sound law that affects deep phonological structure is not required. The goal is to eliminate ug by providing diachronic. He is the son of the russianborn linguist and slavicist valentin kiparsky academic life. Biography of paul kiparsky university of california. Consonant allophones and the ambisyllabicity problem.
The phonological basis of sound change the handbook of. One could point to the development of metrical phonology based on the traditional notions foot and meter, work in prosodic phonology based on a hierarchy of. Object and methods of inquiry routledge handbook chapter, kiparsky. Biography of paul kiparsky xv i metrics 1 1 on the phonological basis of sound change after hopkins 3 andrew garrett 2 on stress and meter and on english iambics in particular 5 morris halle 3 nonlexical word stress in the english iambic pentameter. Instead, kiparsky claims it is similar to leveling, in that it is a nonproportional type of analogy. Labovs 1981, 1994 empirical findings confirmed the existence of two longrecognized mechanisms of phonological change. Paul kiparsky stanford university labov begins his landmark principles of linguistic change with a volume on internal factors governing sound change labov 1994 that focuses on the constraints problem weinreich, labov, and herzog 1968. On the theory of lexical phonology phonology cambridge core.
Moreover, it forces us to reassess intuitively plausible hypotheses about language change, such as grammatical simplification, in a quantitative and independently motivated framework of acquisition. For example, kiparsky 1965 notes that the generative view of language change is that it takes place in the saussurian langue, or generativist competence, rather than in the parole or performance. The formal theory is no longer expected to explain everything about phonology by itself. We use cookies to make interactions with our website easy and meaningful, to better understand the use of our services, and to tailor advertising. Labov, sound change, and phonological theory paul kiparsky. This one time in 1988 when kiparsky talked about phonological. In addition, i show that abstract phonological constraints are influenced by the phonological encoding of lexical items. Universals constrain change, change results in typological generalizations.
This thesis focuses upon parallels between phonology and phonological processing. I explore their implications for phonological theory, and show that they. Types of sound change pazmany peter katolikus egyetem. The phonological basis of sound change request pdf.
Paul kroeger 9may90 in the past 15 years or so, a number of traditional concepts have been reintroduced into current phonological theory. We show that applying our simulation to a phonological change allows us to make precise quantitative predications about the progress of this change. Citeseerx citation query lexical phonology and morphology. The phonological basis of sound change stanford university. Language acquisition and phonological change paul foulkes. Paul kiparsky stanford university, ca su researchgate. Publication date 1971 topics grammar, comparative and generalphonology. Studies in honor of paul kiparsky edited by kristin hanson. Labov, sound change, and phonological theory stanford university. Exploring the role of token frequency in phonological. Studies in honor of paul kiparsky current studies in linguistics kristin hanson, sharon inkelas a collection of essays on the word by colleagues, students, and teachers of linguist paul kiparsky that reflects his distinctive focus and his influence on the field.
Explanation in phonology paul kiparsky, publications in language sciences, 4. The handbook of historical linguistics edited by brian d. Kiparsky, paul 1965, phonological change, massachusetts institute of technology. Mechanism of sound change in optimality theory language. Morphologically conditioned phonological alternations. Anderson when we talk about phonological change, it is reasonably clear what we mean, but the scope of morphological change is less obvious, and depends heavily on the scope of what we take to be morphology. Formal and empirical issues in phonological typology. Draft reference list this document includes an unannotated list of the references i had in the draft version of this entry. Exploring the role of token frequency in phonological change.
And so the record of phonological change, taken from philology the comparative method internal reconstruction becomes a trove of data that can bear on how children learn phonology. Formal and empirical issues in phonological typology kiparsky, paul. Scott borgeson, arto anttila, ryan heuser, paul kiparsky. The handbook of historical linguistics provides a detailed account of the numerous issues, methods, and results that characterize current work in historical linguistics, the area of linguistics most directly concerned with language change as well as past language states contains an extensive introduction that places the study of historical linguistics in its. All content in this area was uploaded by paul kiparsky on aug 18, 2017. In the 1980s and 1990s, the work of william labov and paul kiparsky brought. View enhanced pdf access article on wiley online library.
Paul smolensky, was also at the forefront of the development of pdp. His phd thesis phonological change 1965 and his subsequent work on. Evolutionary phonology seeks to derive typological generalizations from recurrent patterns of language change, themselves assumed to be rooted in perception, production, and acquisition. The introduction of such phonological contraband with loanwords is more.
Paul kiparsky, in the handbook of phonology goldsmith editor, argues that under a proper definition of analogy as optimization, lexical diffusion is not a type of sound change. There were a number of restrictions on the bibliographic entry. The phonologization problem has been at the core of phonological theorizing, but has no generally agreed on. Labov begins his landmark principles of linguistic change with a volume. Definitions of terms from phonetics and phonology can be found in the following dictionary. Both problems are deep ones, and reach the foundations of phonological theory.
On this view, sound change is insulated from the phonological system, and affects it only indirectly through reanalysis of the output. Rene paul victor kiparsky born january 28, 1941 is a finnish professor of linguistics at stanford university. For further reading kiparskys explanation in phonology 1982 or mohanans theory. Bass professor in the school of humanities and sciences. Using the tolerance principle to predict phonological change. In the 1980s and 1990s, the work of william labov and paul kiparsky brought about a convergence of empirical results and theoretical perspectives on the implementation problem. Dec 09, 2010 here, in kiparskys 1988 phonological change, we get ks take on phonetic analogy as well as what he dubs phonological analogy. Different word formation processes such as vowel shift rule, vowel reduction, voicing or. Pdf the phonological basis of sound change paul kiparsky. The theory of lexical phonology, which forms one of the themes of this volume, was developed by paul kiparsky and k. He studied at alabama college now the university of montevallo, the university of helsinki and the university of minnesota. Phonological theory in recent years can be said to have undergone a modularisation in several respects. The handbook of historical linguistics wiley online books.
Citeseerx document details isaac councill, lee giles, pradeep teregowda. This paper deals once more with the assumption of the ausnahmslosigkeit of sound change, also known as the neogrammarian doctrine that sound changes operate without exceptions wang, 1969. Phonological change is traditionally divided into sound change, initiated by. Language acquisition and phonological change paul foulkes and. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Search for library items search for lists search for contacts search for a library. Abstractthe word level in the sense of lexical phonology and stratal ot, here referred to as the lphonemic level, is a linguistically significant level of representation, which captures what was right about the structural phonemic level without inheriting its wellknown problems. View enhanced pdf access article on wiley online library html view download pdf for offline viewing. A study of john donne 21 kristin hanson 4 the prosodic word as a unit in poetic meter 63. Analogical change as a problem for linguistic theory more. I study phonological speech errors and a phonotactic dissimilarity constraint, demonstrating they have analogous similarity and frequency effects.
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