Beyond Markedness in Formal Phonology
Edited by Bridget D. Samuels
University of Southern California
In recent years, an increasing number of linguists have re-examined the question of whether markedness has explanatory power, or whether it is a phenomenon that begs explanation itself. This volume brings together a collection of articles with a broad range of critical viewpoints on the notion of markedness in phonological theory. The contributions span a variety of phonological frameworks and relate to morphosyntax, historical linguistics, neurolinguistics, biolinguistics, and language typology. This volume will be of particular interest to phonologists of both synchronic and diachronic persuasions and has strong implications for the architecture of grammar with respect to phonology and its interfaces with morphosyntax and phonetics.
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 241] 2017. xii, 237 pp.
Table of Contents
Table of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Bridget D. Samuels
Chapter 1. Markedness in substance-free and substance-dependent phonology
David Odden
Chapter 2. Contrast is irrelevant in phonology: A simple account of Russian /v/ as /V/
Charles Reiss
Chapter 3. What are grammars made of?
Juliette Blevins
Chapter 4. Consonant epenthesis and markedness
Bert Vaux and Bridget D. Samuels
Chapter 5. On silent markedness
Edoardo Cavirani and Marc van Oostendorp
Chapter 6. The phonetic salience of phonological head-dependent
structure in a modulated-carrier model of speech
Kuniya Nasukawa
Chapter 7. Markedness and formalising phonological representations
Shanti Ulfsbjorninn
Chapter 8. Are there brain bases for phonological markedness?
Mathias Scharinger
Chapter 9. There is no place for markedness in biologically-informed phonology
Pedro Tiago Martins
Index