Phonological chunking in German and English: Segment, juncture, and boundary

[摘要] Linguistic knowledge implies the ability to identify and manipulate phonological segments of various sizes. Such ;;chunks;; are often, although not always, demarcated by phonetic clues to phonological organization. The American Structuralists in the 1930's-1950's posited a demarcative phoneme called ;;juncture,;; which raised questions about the legitimacy of phonological analyses which rely on grammatical information about the language.Data from language games, diachronic resegmentation, and phonological reduction all show that a competent speaker can ;;chunk;; phonological material in a variety of ways. The field linguist, the armchair analyst, and the ordinary listener are all playing the same segmentation game, listening for phonetic clues to linguistic structure.

[发布机构] Rice University

[效力级别] Modern