Where is the Natural Phonology Phoneme in 2009?

• Authors: Geoffrey Nathan
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The phoneme in Natural Phonology (NP) has a different status from that which it has in most versions of "generative" phonology and also from several other current functionalist phonological models. Unlike the generative view, the NP phoneme is a mental image of a fully specified sound. On the other hand, unlike the usage-based view, there is a single mental image which is modified online in production, while perception "undoes" the modification according to the speaker/hearer's dialect. This paper presents some arguments for the continuing validity of the NP view.

Keywords

EN

Phoneme; Natural Phonology; Cognitive Grammar; usage-based

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Journal: Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 45
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 141-148

Dates

published

2009-03-01

online

2009-05-14

Contributors

author

Geoffrey Nathan

• Wayne State University, Detroit

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10010-009-0007-5