UID:
almafu_9958353969102883
Format:
1 online resource (900p.):
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ISBN:
9783110238631
Content:
This book reviews the history of the interface between morpho-syntax and phonology roughly since World War II. Structuralist and generative interface thinking is presented chronologically, but also theory by theory from the point of view of a historically interested observer who however in the last third of the book distills lessons in order to assess present-day interface theories, and to establish a catalogue of properties that a correct interface theory should or must not have. The book also introduces modularity, the rationalist theory of the (human) cognitive system that underlies the generative approach to language, from a Cognitive Science perspective. Modularity is used as a referee for interface theories in the book. Finally, the book locates the interface debate in the landscape of current minimalist syntax and phase theory and fosters intermodular argumentation: how can we use properties of morpho-syntactic theory in order to argue for or against competing theories of phonology (and vice-versa)?
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Frontmatter --
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Table of contents – overview --
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Introduction --
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Part One – Morpho-syntactic information in phonology: a survey since Trubetzkoy's Grenzsignale --
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1. The spectrum: what morpho-syntactic information can do to phonology --
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2. Trubetzkoy's Grenzsignale --
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3. American structuralism: juncture phonemes --
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4. Chomsky, Halle & Lukoff (1956) --
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5. SPE sets the standards for 40 years --
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6. The life of boundaries in post-SPE times --
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7. Lexical Phonology --
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8. Halle & Vergnaud (1987a): selective spell-out and SPE-restoration --
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9. Kaye (1995): selective spell-out and modification-inhibiting no look-back --
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10. Prosodic Phonology: on the representational side --
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11. Optimality Theory --
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12. Distributed Morphology --
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Interlude – Modularity --
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1. Introduction: the relative absence of modularity in interface thinking --
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2. Modularity and connectionism, mind and brain --
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3. The modular architecture of the mind: where it comes from --
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4. The modular architecture of the mind: how it works --
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5. Modularity of and in language, related systems --
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6. How modules communicate --
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Part Two – Lessons from interface theories --
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1. A guide to the interface jungle --
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2. Empirical generalisations --
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3. Issues that are settled --
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4. Modularity, translation, the diacritic issue and local vs. domain-based intervention: settled in verb, but not in fact --
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5. Open questions (general) --
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6. Open questions (procedural) --
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Conclusion – Intermodular argumentation --
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Backmatter
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 978-3-11-023862-4
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110238631
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110238631
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110238631
