Pertinacity in phonology: Synchrony, diachrony, processing, modelling

经过几个世纪的语言学研究，人们普遍认为语音变化是司空见惯的。有些人认为语法是惰性的，只会随着语音或语义的变化而变化。这个项目采取了一个不寻常的和具有挑战性的观点：音系是顽固的，这表明音系的变化有严格的限制。持久性（两种类型）的原则如下：持久性A：输出形式可能看起来与提供语言不同，但是原生的底层模式保持不变。持久性B：输出形式可能看起来相似，但底层的语音语法可能已经改变。提案的独特性：与PI早期的工作一样，将其与更狭隘的部门化的专家方法区分开来，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，多样性和一致性的核心问题。为了检验持久性的原理，我们将研究类似的语音过程，包括内部的（规则的语音规则和约束）和外部的（通过语言接触的借用），跨越三个语系（西&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).