Pertinacity in phonology: Synchrony, diachrony, processing, modelling

经过几个世纪的语言学研究，一个标准的信念是，语音变化是常见和普遍的。一些人声称句法是惰性的，只有在语音或语义变化的结果下才会发生变化。这个项目采取了一种不同寻常和具有挑战性的观点：音系学是顽固的，这表明音系学的变化有严格的限制。一致性原则(两种类型)规定：一致性A：输出形式可能看起来与施主语言不同，但母语的潜在模式仍然存在。持续性B：输出形式可能看起来相似，但潜在的语音语法会发生变化。建议的分歧：与PI早期的工作不同，它与更狭隘的部门专家方法不同，经典的理论和历史研究将与心理语言学和神经语言学实验以及计算模型相结合，以阐明语言变化和稳定性、多样性和一致性的中心问题。为了检验一致性的原理，我们将调查类似的语音过程，内部(常规语音规则和限制)和外部(通过语言接触借来的)，跨越三个语系(西日耳曼语和北日耳曼语和印度雅利安语)。

A standard belief through centuries of linguistic research has been that phonological change is commonplace and pervasive.Syntax has been claimed by some to be inert, changing only as a consequence of phonological or semantic change. This project takes an unusual and challenging view: Phonology is pertinacious, suggesting that phonological change has severe restrictions. The principle of Pertinacity (two types) states:Pertinacity A: The output forms may look different from the donor language, but the native underlying pattern persists.Pertinacity B: The output forms may look similar, but the underlying phonological grammar would have changed.DISTINCTIVENESS of the proposal: As in the PI's earlier work, setting it apart from more narrowly departmentalised specialist approaches, classical theoretical and historical research will be combined with psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic experimentation, and computational modelling to shed light on central issues of linguistic change and stability, diversity and uniformity.To examine the principle of Pertinacity, we will investigate similar phonological processes, both internal (regular phonological rules and constraints) and external (loans via language contact), across three language families (West & North Germanic and Indo-Aryan).