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  • Positional Neutralization: A Case Study from Child Language

  • Sharon Inkelas, Yvan Rose
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 83 / Issue 4 / December 2007
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    19 February 2026, pp. 707-736

  • A new longitudinal diary study of a child (E) learning American English reveals two patterns of segmental neutralization: velar fronting, in which /k/ and /g/ are realized as [t] and [d], and lateral gliding, in which /l/ is realized as [j]. Both phenomena are restricted to prosodically strong positions, affecting only consonants in word-initial position or in the onsets of stressed syllables. An explanation for positional velar fronting that combines phonetic and grammatical considerations is proposed to account for the occurrence of the effect in children but not adults: the greater gestural magnitude of prosodically strong onsets in English interacts with the anatomy of the young child's vocal tract to produce coronalization of prosodically strong velars. E extended the resulting pattern to lateral gliding, which developed later and has similar grammatical conditioning but less direct phonetic motivation.

  • Henry Kahane

  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 81 / Issue 1 / March 2005
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    19 February 2026, pp. 237-244
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  • Henry R. Kahane was born on November 2, 1902, in Berlin, Germany, ‘an Austrian in the German world’ (Kahane 1992b:40). He was raised in the intellectually stimulating world of theatre and literature and it was there that he began his formal academic life with Literaturwissenschaft, gradually moving into Romance linguistics. Henry was drawn to linguistics, ‘attracted by the magnetic personality of Ernst Gamillscheg, a trail-blazing genius, who, up to his death in 1971, was inexhaustible in linguistic themes and explanations and, despite political flings, of an incorruptible professional objectivity’ (ibid.). Gamillscheg was to have a multifold impact on Henry’s life. It was in this professor’s seminar, in 1927, that Henry met Renée, née Toole, of Irish ancestry born in Cephalonia, Ionian Island. It was through Renée’s influence that Henry developed his interest in Mediterranean studies. Two other European scholars who also left an indelible impact on Henry in relating language and history were Max Leopold Wagner (1880-1962) and Gerhard Rohlfs (1892-1986).

  • 9 - A Non-anthropocentric Realism?

  • Edited by Jérémie Bouchard, Hokkai-Gakuen University, Karin Zotzmann, University of Southampton
  • Book:
    Critical Realism in Applied Linguistics
    Published online:
    30 January 2026
    Print publication:
    19 February 2026, pp 226-246

  • Summary

    The early proponents of the philosophical position identified as critical realism (CR) maintained that the natural and social sciences could be better understood through a recognition of both their similarities and their differences (e.g., Bhaskar, 1979). One of the differences asserted in CR concerns the specific properties of human beings – individually and collectively – as distinct from the properties of other kinds of entities. Some attempts have been made to explore the implications of CR for non-anthropocentric philosophy (e.g., Jakobsen, 2017), but these tend to remain on a quite abstract, theoretical plane. This chapter reviews some developments in the ways realist social theory has been discussed within applied linguistics and sociolinguistics, before presenting some contrasting claims about the relationship between language and reality. This leads to a broader discussion about the implications of conceptualising human language as just one among many semiotic modes. The chapter concludes with a brief consideration of the potential contribution of biosemiotics and post-humanism, particularly the concepts associated with assemblage theory, to applied linguistics.

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