REVOLUPHON - Rational Evolutionary Phonology

revolphon旨在通过解释过去六十年来该领域最重要的观察结果来改变音系理论。几十年的研究表明，音系在(i)某些抽象的形式表示和（ii）优化过程方面得到了特别好的描述。然而，我们还不明白其中的原因。我的核心假设是，自20世纪60年代以来，音韵学的主导、描述性发现将被一种新的综合解释，即：(1)资源合理性；（二）文化演变。(i)资源合理性是一种新的认知理论，它解释了认知计算策略的动机和优势，包括何时和如何存储信息。我假设资源合理性可以阐明经典的、描述性成功的语音表征的认知动机。REVOLUPHON通过在三个连续的发展阶段对语音所需的计算任务进行建模，并在这些任务的背景下评估经典表征的资源合理性，来验证这一假设。（ii）进化导致优化，音系经历文化进化。然而，从进化到优化的解释联系还没有在音系理论中做出。我假设，一种形式化的音系进化理论将解释为什么音系（大部分）会优化，它们是如何优化的，以及何时不会优化。REVOLUPHON通过开发新的进化分析模式和设计计算模型来验证这一假设，这些模型将文化进化与资源理性学习和音系学的使用结合起来，以解决（非）优化的突出理论问题，并回答有关音系学如何进化的全新问题。REVOLUPHON绘制了一条大胆的路径，推翻了我们对该领域中心观测的理解；导致对它们的新的、更深刻的解释；发现了一个充满活力和成果的新理论。

REVOLUPHON aims to transform the theory of phonology by explaining the field's most significant observations of the past sixty years. Decades of research has revealed that phonologies are particularly well described in terms of (i) certain abstract formal representations and (ii) an optimisation process. However, we do not yet understand why.My core hypothesis is that the dominant, descriptive discoveries of phonology since the 1960's will be explained by a new synthesis with (i) resource rationality; and (ii) cultural evolution.(i) Resource rationality is a new theory of cognition that explains the motivations and advantages of cognitive computational strategies, including for when and how to store information. I hypothesise that resource rationality can illuminate the cognitive motivations for classic, descriptively-successful phonological representations. REVOLUPHON tests this hypothesis by modelling the computational tasks demanded by phonology across three successive developmental stages, and evaluating the resource rationality of classic representations in the contexts of those tasks.(ii) Evolution leads to optimisation and phonologies undergo cultural evolution. However, an explanatory link from evolution to optimisation has yet to be made in phonological theory. I hypothesise that a formalised theory of phonological evolution will explain why phonologies (mostly) optimise, how they do, and when they do not. REVOLUPHON tests this hypothesis by: developing new modes of evolutionary analysis and devising computational models that couple cultural evolution to the resource-rational learning and use of phonology, to solve outstanding theoretical problems of (non-)optimisation and to answer entirely new questions abouthow phonologies evolve.REVOLUPHON charts a bold path that overturns our understanding of the central observations of the field; leads to a new and significantly deeper explanation of them; and founds a vibrant and productive new theory.