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Conference Paper: How economical are phonological inventories?
| Title | How economical are phonological inventories? |
|---|---|
| Authors | |
| Keywords | feature economy phonological inventories typology underspecification upsid |
| Issue Date | 2011 |
| Citation | 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVII), Hong Kong, China, 17-21 August 2011. In Conference Proceedings, 2011, p. 524-527 How to Cite? |
| Abstract | Since the work of André Martinet back in the 60’s [7], the notion of ‘economy’ has been accepted as one of the main principles underlying the organization of phonological inventories (hereafter PI). This principle, also named MUAF (‘Maximal Use of Available Features’) by John Ohala [8], states that PI are organized along a few phonetic dimensions that they tend to maximize in terms of number of segments. In this paper, we propose a method to quantify the extent of this economy. We observe that it is in fact not maximal and better applies to vocalic than consonantal systems. We also study which are the preferred phonetic dimensions organizing this economy. |
| Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/283460 |
| DC Field | Value | Language |
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| dc.contributor.author | Coupé, C | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Marsico, E | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Philippson, G | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-06-23T07:58:54Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2020-06-23T07:58:54Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2011 | - |
| dc.identifier.citation | 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVII), Hong Kong, China, 17-21 August 2011. In Conference Proceedings, 2011, p. 524-527 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/283460 | - |
| dc.description.abstract | Since the work of André Martinet back in the 60’s [7], the notion of ‘economy’ has been accepted as one of the main principles underlying the organization of phonological inventories (hereafter PI). This principle, also named MUAF (‘Maximal Use of Available Features’) by John Ohala [8], states that PI are organized along a few phonetic dimensions that they tend to maximize in terms of number of segments. In this paper, we propose a method to quantify the extent of this economy. We observe that it is in fact not maximal and better applies to vocalic than consonantal systems. We also study which are the preferred phonetic dimensions organizing this economy. | - |
| dc.language | eng | - |
| dc.relation.ispartof | 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVII) | - |
| dc.subject | feature economy | - |
| dc.subject | phonological inventories | - |
| dc.subject | typology | - |
| dc.subject | underspecification | - |
| dc.subject | upsid | - |
| dc.title | How economical are phonological inventories? | - |
| dc.type | Conference_Paper | - |
| dc.description.nature | link_to_OA_fulltext | - |
| dc.identifier.spage | 524 | - |
| dc.identifier.epage | 527 | - |