Feature Classes in Phonology
Feature Classes in Phonology
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音系学中的要素类
DOI：
10.1353/lan.2002.0046
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发表时间：
2002
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影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Jaye Padgett
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作者：
Jaye Padgett
本文主张对特征类行为的一种特殊理解--某些语音特征（如发音位置和喉特征）的循环模式化。这些建议建立在著名的工作特征几何假设的重要性，在语音学的功能类，但不同的是，一类的功能是直接和单独的约束（或规则），即使当一个功能类，如地方提到。此外，提到特征类的约束是可逐渐违反的。这种要素类观点的证据来自两个来源。首先，同化涉及的功能类有时只是部分成功的，充分了解这种情况下，需要提出的功能类的观点。其次，有很多类别的要素类综合需要它，包括通常由强制轮廓原则处理的异化效应。总的来说，这些建议扩大了要素类概念的解释潜力，因为要素几何。在更一般的层面上，这里的结果表明，语言表征有时需要在优选理论的背景下重新考虑（Prince & Smolensky 1993），因为它们可以有效地发挥不可侵犯的约束的作用，从而阻碍我们对使用梯度违反约束的分析所揭示的更微妙的现象的理解。
This article argues for a particular understanding of feature class behavior - the recurrent patterning together of certain phonological features, such as place of articulation and laryngeal features. The proposals build on the well-known work of feature geometry in assuming the importance of feature classes in phonology, but differ in that features of a class are targeted directly and individually by constraints (or rules), even when a feature class such as Place is mentioned. Further, constraints mentioning feature classes are gradiently violable. Evidence for this view of feature classes comes from two sources. First, assimilation involving feature classes is sometimes only partially successful; an adequate understanding of such cases requires the proposed view of feature classes. Second, there are broad categories of feature class generalization that require it, including dissimilatory effects usually handled by the obligatory contour principle. Overall, the proposals broaden the explanatory potential of the feature class idea due to feature geometry. At a more general level, the results here suggest that linguistic representations sometimes need to be reconsidered in the context of optimality theory (Prince & Smolensky 1993), since they can effectively function as inviolable constraints and so hinder our understanding of the more subtle kind of phenomena revealed by analyses employing gradiently violable constraints.