Contrast in Phonology : : Theory, Perception, Acquisition / / ed. by Peter Avery, B. Elan Dresher, Keren Rice.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Avery, Peter,; Boersma, Paul,; Boomershine, Amanda,; Cebrian, Juli,; Currie Hall, Kathleen,; Daniel Currie Hall,,; Dresherl, B. Elan,; Escudero, Paola,; Fikkert, Paula,; Goad, Heather,; Hume, Elizabeth,; Johnson, Keith,; Kochetov, Alexei,; Kuroda, S.-Y.,; Levelt, Clara,; Maye, Jessica,; Mielke, Jeff,; Rice, Keren,; Scobbie, James M.,; Stuart-Smith, Jane,; Weiss, Daniel J.,; Ólafur Hansson, Gunnar,
• HerausgeberIn: Avery, Peter,; Dresher, B. Elan,; Rice, Keren,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Phonology and Phonetics [PP] , 13
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (351 p.)

This book takes contrast, an issue that has been central to phonological theory since Saussure, as its central theme, making explicit its importance to phonological theory, perception, and acquisition. The volume brings together a number of different contemporary approaches to the theory of contrast, including chapters set within more abstract representation-based theories, as well as chapters that focus on functional phonetic theories and perceptual constraints. This book will be of interest to phonologists, phoneticians, psycholinguists, researchers in first and second language acquisition, and cognitive scientists interested in current thinking on this exciting topic.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Theory -- The contrastive hierarchy in phonology -- Prophylactic features and implicit contrast -- Contrasts in Japanese: A contribution to feature -- geometry -- Quasi-phonemic contrast and the fuzzy inventory: -- Examples from Scottish English -- Effects of contrast recoverability on the typology -- of harmony systems -- Perception -- The impact of allophony versus contrast on speech -- perception -- Interplay between perceptual salience and contrast: -- /h/ perceptibility in Turkish, Arabic, English, and French -- Self-organization through misperception: Secondary -- articulation and vowel contrasts in language inventories -- Acquisition: First language (L1) -- acquisition -- The role of contrast in the acquisition of phonetic -- systems -- How does Place fall into place? -- Acquisition: Second language (L2) -- acquisition -- Learning to perceive a smaller L2 vowel inventory: -- An Optimality Theory account -- The effect of perceptual factors in the acquisition -- of an L2 vowel contrast -- Some reflections on abstractness and the shape of -- inputs: The case of aspiration in English -- Backmatter