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Shaping Phonology (Hardcover)
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Shaping Phonology (Hardcover)
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Within the past forty years, the field of phonology--a branch of
linguistics that explores both the sound structures of spoken
language and the analogous phonemes of sign language, as well as
how these features of language are used to convey meaning--has
undergone several important shifts in theory that are now part of
standard practice. Drawing together contributors from a diverse
array of subfields within the discipline, and honoring the
pioneering work of linguist John Goldsmith, this book reflects on
these shifting dynamics and their implications for future
phonological work. Divided into two parts, Shaping Phonology first
explores the elaboration of abstract domains (or units of analysis)
that fall under the purview of phonology. These chapters reveal the
increasing multidimensionality of phonological representation
through such analytical approaches as autosegmental phonology and
feature geometry. The second part looks at how the advent of
machine learning and computational technologies has allowed for the
analysis of larger and larger phonological data sets, prompting a
shift from using key examples to demonstrate that a particular
generalization is universal to striving for statistical
generalizations across large corpora of relevant data. Now
fundamental components of the phonologist's tool kit, these two
shifts have inspired a rethinking of just what it means to do
linguistics.
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