Introduction: phonological models and experimental data  

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Coetzee, Andries W. ; Kager, Rene ; Pater, Joe

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Phonology (Full Text) vol. 26 no. 01 (May 2009), page 1-8.
Fulltext: Coetzee_Andries_W, p. 1-8.pdf (55.4KB)

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James McCawley’s article ‘Today the world, tomorrow phonology’ appeared in Volume 3 of this journal, whose first half was a special issue on ‘The validation of phonological theories’, edited by John Ohala. Both McCawley and Ohala (1986), in his own contribution to the volume, saw the widespread use of experimental methodologies in phonology as a yet-to-be-achieved state of affairs. Some twenty years later, we can say that McCawley’s ‘tomorrow’ has arrived: laboratory experimentation is just as much a part of the phonologist’s toolkit as is the analysis of crosslinguistic corpora collected using just ordinary phonetic transcription. We offer the present issue as evidence of the current high level of integration of experimental methodology and phonological theory, and especially as a report on important new developments in both methodology and theory.1 As we discuss in what follows, the papers collected here both use the laboratory to test predictions derived from phonological theory, and also develop phonological theory so that it can better deal with data collected in experiments. In the course of providing some context for the papers, we briefly consider how and why the status of experimental phonology has changed so dramatically since 1986. Alongside the efforts of Ohala and colleagues, which might be called the first wave of experimental phonology (see also Ohala & Jaeger 1986), the subsequent establishment of the Laboratory Phonology conference and book series (starting with Kingston & Beckman 1990) has clearly played a major role in promoting the use of experimental techniques in the study of phonological knowledge and processing (see Pierrehumbert et al. 2000 for an overview). It is also clear that developments in phonological theory itself have contributed to the heightened productive interplay with experimentation.

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