The Unfolding of Suprasegmental Representations: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective  

Oleh:

Berg, Thomas ; Abd-el-Jawad, Hassan R.S.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Linguistics (Full Text & ada di PROQUEST & JSTOR) vol. 32 no. 2 (Mar. 1996), page 291-324.
Fulltext: Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 291-324.pdf (739.14KB)

Isi artikel

An analysis of phonological speech errors in Arabic, English and German is carried out with a view to probing into the organization of segments within syllables and words. Arabic slips are shown to be less structure-sensitive than English and German ones. Being absent from underlying representation, suprasegmental structures are assumed to unfold gradually in real time. The erection of hierarchical representations is claimed to be slower in Arabic than in English and German because the non- concatenative morphology of Arabic prevents an early assignment of consonants to structural slots. In contrast, English and German words allow the early build-up of hierarchical structures because sufficient phonological information is available from the beginning of the derivation.

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