History of Phonology
History of Phonology
History of Phonology
Phonology
Josh, Nick & Issac
The Timeline Of Phonology
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► This strengthens their position that phonemes are
points in a system rather than mental entities
► Other structuralist approaches: Stratification
Phonology (1960s) - in the phonemic stratum
phonemes are realized as morphemic elements;
‘morphons’ /k/ ‘critic’ and /s/ ‘critic-ism’ realized
as phonemes
► Aside: Baudouin de Courtenay (1845-1929)
credited with mentalist interpretation of
phoneme, which was not revisited until
generative phonology hit the scene
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Generative Phonology
► Stems from the work of Chomsky and Halle
► Belongs to the “Transformational-Generative”
theory
► Chomsky was critical of his predecessors’ ideas
of a taxonomic approach to linguistics
► Where the previous phonological theories were
focused on classification, Generative phonology
is concerned with accounting for the competence
of a native speaker
Basic Theories of Generative Phonology
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