From Memory to Speech and Back: Papers on Phonetics and Phonology 1954 - 2002 (Phonology and Phonetics [PP] Book 3)

The book includes a selection of articles by Morris Halle dealing with issues in the theory and practice of phonetics and phonology. The articles, written in the course of the last forty years, concern matters that remain to this day at the cutting edge of the discipline. Phonology and Phonetics have had a tumultuous, if not always unequivocal, relationship in the past. This relationship between natural partners is now being invigorated from both sides and novel research techniques and methodologies are fostering new interdisciplinary questions. Consequently, a major issue today is whether it is necessary to draw a line between phonology and phonetics at all. This series aims to stabilize and strengthen the rapport and, by facing the big challenges, to ensure that phonetically grounded phonology and phonologically informed phonetics will have a sound future. The series is intended as a forum for the interaction of phonology and phonetics within linguistics. It welcomes joint phonological-phonetic ventures as well as initiatives from either discipline, as long as they are made with a view of the other. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher. Introduction 7 Why and How do We Study the Sounds of Speech? 24 Speech Recognition: A Model and a Program for Research 31 On the Feature “Advanced Tongue Root” 43 A Note on Laryngeal Features 51 Theoretical Issues in Phonology in the 1970’s 68 Review of Peter Ladefoged, Preliminaries to Linguistic Phonetics 89 Knowledge Unlearned and Untaught: What Speakers Know about the Sounds of their Language 101 On Distinctive Features and their Articulatory Implementation 111 Speculations about the Representations of Words in Memory 128 On the Relationship of Phonology and Phonetics: Comments on B. Lindblom ‘On the Origin and Purpose of Discreteness and Invariance in Sound Patterns’ 143 Why Phonology is Different 156 Knowledge of Language and the Sounds of Speech 182 Feature Geometry and Feature Spreading 202 Name Index 259 Language Index 262 Subject Index 264 Main description: The book includes a selection of articles by Morris Halle dealing with issues in the theory and practice of phonetics and phonology. The articles, written in the course of the last forty years, concern matters that remain to this day at the cutting edge of the discipline This text includes a section of articles by Morris Halle dealing with issues in the theory and practice of phonetics and phonology. The articles, written over the last 40 years, concern matters that remain to this day at the cutting edge of the discipline.