Phoneme and Alternations: Different Views

Authors

BIČAN Aleš

Year of publication 2006
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Teorie a empirie : Bichla pro Krčmovó (eds. Tomáš Hoskovec, Ondřej Šefčík & Radim Sova)
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Field Linguistics
Keywords phoneme; alternations; functionalism; Šefčík; Akamatsu; Post-Bloomfieldians; Mulder; morphonological; phonology
Description The paper compares definitions of "phoneme" in three phonological schools: Post-Bloomfieldian phonology (sc. American Structuralist), morphological (approach put forth by Ondřej Šefčík, influenced by Glossematics) and functionalist phonology (connected with the names of André Martinet, Tsutomu Akamatsu and/or Jan W. F. Mulder). The definitions are applied on the problem of neutralization of the word-final obstruents in Czech. All of the three mentioned approaches solve the problem differently. The paper also touches briefly upon so-called morphonological alternations.

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