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  • Meaningful Phonological Processes: A Consideration of Central Alaskan Yupik Eskimo Prosody

  • Anthony C. Woodbury
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 63 / Issue 4 / December 1987
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    12 March 2026, pp. 685-740

  • This paper proposes principles to revise the strict ‘double articulation’ of standard linguistic theory, and define a class of optional rules of postlexical phonology whose output bears meaning. The class includes prosody-modifying processes of Central Alaskan Yupik Eskimo (CAY)—which, when applied to a word or prosodic phrase, add linguistically significant expressive or other pragmatic meaning. Their postlexical rule status is suggested by their phonological form, their gradience and dependence (in some cases) on above-word prosodic phrasing, and above all by their intricate inter-ordering among the obligatory prosody rules of CAY postlexical phonology. The phonological treatment prescribed by the proposed principles is shown to handle such features naturally and easily, whereas treatments in keeping with strict double articulation do not. The proposed revision of the double articulation principle promises to preserve modularity in a way which simplifies individual grammars, and which makes testable empirical predictions about universal grammar.

  • Sound change: Actuation and implementation

  • Matthew Y. Chen, William S-Y. Wang
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 51 / Issue 2 / June 1975
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    12 March 2026, pp. 255-281

  • In the present paper we address ourselves to two fundamental questions regarding sound change: (1) HOW does a sound change implement itself? and (2) WHY does a phonological process assume a particular form, and follow a particular pattern or schedule? In answer to the question of implementation, we propose the concept of LEXICAL DIFFUSION. We have amassed a sizable amount of evidence drawn from the history of Chinese, English, and Swedish, as well as from language acquisition, to substantiate the claim that a phonological change propagates itself gradually across the lexicon, from morpheme to morpheme. In partial answer to the second question, concerning the actuation of phonological processes, we propose that the principal determinants of sound change are to be sought in the inherent constraints of the physiological and perceptual apparatus of the language user. To illustrate the point, we have investigated the attrition of the consonantal endings in a large number of Chinese dialects, and have found significant parallels in the development of well-known Indo-European languages. We argue that the cross-linguistically prevalent pattern and schedule of the related processes are traceable to their PHONETIC ACTUATION. Experimental evidence, both perceptual and physiological, is produced in support.

  • On Weighing Achilles' Wingéd Words

  • Gordon M. Messing
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 57 / Issue 4 / December 1981
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    12 March 2026, pp. 888-900

  • Friedrich & Redfield (in Lg. 54.263–88, 1978) have argued that Homer's heroes had their own idiolects. This view is untenable: it is inconsistent with the practices of oral poetry and with the classical doctrine of êthos. Their stylometric tests are unconvincing because of inadequate sampling, an unreliable textual tradition, and a defective rationale in applying stylistic criteria.

  • LAN volume 64 issue 3 Cover and Back matter

  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 64 / Issue 3 / September 1988
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    12 March 2026, pp. b1-b8
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