Enlarging the Scope of Phonologization
Enlarging the Scope of Phonologization
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扩大音系化的范围
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2008
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Larry M. Hyman
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Larry M. Hyman
UC Berkeley Phonology Lab Annual Report (2008) Enlarging the Scope of Phonologization Larry M. Hyman University of California, Berkeley [Submitted to the Proceedings of the Symposium on Phonologization, University of Chicago, April 25-26, 2008] “...the original cause for the emergence of all alternants is always purely anthropophonic” (Baudouin de Courtenay 1895 [1972:184]) Introduction It is hard to remember a time, if ever, when phonologists were not interested in the relation between synchrony and diachrony. From the very founding of the discipline, a constant, if not always central issue has been the question of how phonology comes into being. As can be seen in the above quote from Baudouin de Courtenay, the strategy has usually been to derive phonological structure from phonetic substance. The following list of movements dating from the early generative period provides a partial phonological backdrop of the wide-ranging views and interest in the relation between synchrony and diachrony, on the one hand, and phonetics and phonology, on the other: a. b. c. d. e. f. g. classical generative phonology (Chomsky & Halle 1968) diachronic generative phonology (Kiparsky 1965, 1968; King 1969) natural phonology (Stampe 1972, Donegan & Stampe 1979) natural generative phonology (Vennemann 1972a,b, 1974; Hooper [Bybee] 1976) variation and sound change in progress (Labov 1971, Labov et al 1972) phonetic explanations of phonological patterning and sound change (Ohala 1974, 1981, Thurgood & Javkin 1975, Hombert, Ohala & Ewan 1979) intrinsic vs. extrinsic variations in speech (Wang & Fillmore 1961, Chen 1970, Mohr For some of the above scholars the discovery of phonetic and/or diachronic motivations of recurrent phonological structures entailed the rejection of some or all of the basic tenets of classical generative phonology, as represented by Chomsky & Halle’s (1968) Sound Pattern of English (SPE). As a generative phonologist, I found myself conflicted betweeen a commitment to the structuralist approach to phonology, as reflected in the Prague School (e.g. Trubetzkoy 1939, Martinet 1960) and in SPE vs. a desire to “explain” this structure in terms of its phonetic and historical underpinnings. The resolution I opted for was to focus on the process of phonologization, which is concerned not only with these underpinnings, but also with what happens to phonetic properties once they become phonological. Thus, although resembling Jakobson’s (1931) term phonologisation (Phonologisierung), which is better translated as phonemicization (whereby an already phonological property changes from allophonic to phonemic), I intended the term to refer to the change of a phonetic property into a phonological one. Definitions of phonologization from this period include the following: