A comprehensive overview of theories of the mental representation of the sounds of language.
A comprehensive overview of theories of the mental representation of the sounds of language.
At the heart of generative phonology lies the assumption that the sounds of every language have abstract underlying representations, which undergo various changes in order to generate the 'surface' representations; that is, the sounds we actually pronounce. The existence, status…
This volume looks at the fascinating ways in which language provides insight into the workings of the human mind. By exploring the way in which the sounds of words are stored in the phonological lexicon, we learn about how the human mind analyses a blurry and distorted signal in…
A comprehensive overview of theories of the mental representation of the sounds of language.
Vowel harmony and correspondence theory
by ebrary, Inc, Krämer, Martin
fromStudies in generative grammar
