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LSA.140 | Phonetics in Phonology

Edward Flemming and Donca Steriade
TR 10:10-11:50
location: 56-114
course web site: http://lsa.dlp.mit.edu/Class/140

This course examines the connection between phonological typology (e.g. patterns of place and laryngeal neutralization; consonantal assimilation; vowel harmony; vowel reduction, consonant lenition, contour tone and diphthong reduction) and phonetic implementation factors (e.g. differences in the distribution of perceptual cues between types of segmental contrasts and across positions; effects of inter-gestural overlap and phonetic duration on the perceptibility of contrasts). In surveying the links between phonological typology and phonetic implementation, we focus on the basis of these connections, their proper formalization, and the implications for the structure of individual grammars, the form of phonological constraints, the innate or acquired status of constraints, and the relationship between phonetics and phonology as components of grammar.