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Book SynopsisThe Segment in Phonetics and Phonology unravels exactly what the segment is and on what levels it exists, approaching the study of the segment with theoretical, empirical, and methodological heterogeneity as its guiding principle.
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors vii
1 Introduction 1
Eric Raimy and Charles E. Cairns
Part I Is Segmentation Real? 23
2 The Segment in Articulatory Phonology 25
Carol A. Fowler
3 Beyond the Segment 44
Markus A. Pöchtrager
4 A Prosodic Theory of Vocalic Contrasts 65
Chris Golston and Wolfgang Kehrein
5 Segmentation and Pinky Extension in ASL Fingerspelling 103
Jonathan Keane, Diane Brentari, and Jason Riggle
6 Categorical Segments, Probabilistic Models 129
Kathleen Currie Hall
Part II What Are the Roles of Segments in Phonology? 147
7 The Opponent Principle in RcvP: Binarity in a Unary System 149
Harry van der Hulst
8 Why the Palatal Glide Is Not a Consonant in Japanese: A Dependency]based Analysis 180
Kuniya Nasukawa
9 Determining Cross]Linguistic Phonological Similarity Between Segments: The Primacy of Abstract Aspects of Similarity 199
Charles B. Chang
10 Contrast and Vowel Features 218
San Duanmu
11 The Phonetics and Phonology of Segment Classification: A Case Study of /v/ 236
Christina Bjorndahl
Part III Case Studies 251
12 The Perception of Vowel Quality and Quantity by Turkish Learners of German as a Foreign Language 253
Katharina Nimz
13 Compensatory Lengthening in Hungarian VnC Sequences: Phonetic or Phonological? 267
Mária Gósy and Robert M. Vago
14 Pari Consonant Mutation as Defective Root Node Affixation 283
Jochen Trommer
15 Templates as Affixation of Segment]sized Units: The Case of Southern Sierra Miwok 314
Eva Zimmermann
Index 337
