Refining explanation in Evolutionary Phonology: macro-typologies and targeted typologies in action

IF 1.7 2区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
J. Blevins, Ander Egurtzegi
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Abstract

In this paper, we highlight the role of typology in providing an empirical basis for explanation within Evolutionary Phonology with a focus on rare sound patterns and extra-phonetic explanation. Broad typological surveys of sound patterns or macro-typologies that include phonetic detail may, at once, support universal tendencies and document rare sound patterns, offering arguments for theories in which universal tendencies based on phonetic explanation are emergent properties of markedness-free grammars. However, in order to explain rarity and explore extra-phonetic factors, targeted typologies, narrowed by specific structural properties or contact histories, may be necessary. In this study, the complementary roles of broad and targeted typologies are illustrated through recent case studies of three basic components of phonological systems—sound inventories, alternations, and phonotactics—, with a focus on non-phonetic explanations that have enhanced the predictive power of the Evolutionary framework.
进化音系学中的精炼解释:宏观类型学和目标类型学的作用
在本文中,我们强调类型学在为进化音系学中的解释提供经验基础方面的作用,重点关注罕见的声音模式和语音外解释。包括语音细节的声音模式或宏观类型学的广泛类型学调查可以立即支持普遍趋势并记录罕见的声音模式,为基于语音解释的普遍趋势是无标记语法的紧急属性的理论提供论据。然而,为了解释稀有性和探索语音外因素,可能需要通过特定的结构特性或接触历史来缩小目标类型学。在本研究中,通过最近对语音系统的三个基本组成部分——声音库存、交替和语音策略——的案例研究,说明了广泛的和有针对性的类型学的互补作用,重点关注了增强了进化框架预测能力的非语音解释。
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期刊介绍: Linguistic Typology provides a forum for all work of relevance to the study of language typology and cross-linguistic variation. It welcomes work taking a typological perspective on all domains of the structure of spoken and signed languages, including historical change, language processing, and sociolinguistics. Diverse descriptive and theoretical frameworks are welcomed so long as they have a clear bearing on the study of cross-linguistic variation. We welcome cross-disciplinary approaches to the study of linguistic diversity, as well as work dealing with just one or a few languages, as long as it is typologically informed and typologically and theoretically relevant, and contains new empirical evidence.
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