THEORETICAL LINGUISTICS/LINGUISTIC TYPOLOGY Language-Cognition new Interface: State of the LINCOM Studies Art Vol. 05 in Phonetics RAMESH KUMAR MISHRA & NARAYANAN SRINIVASAN (eds.) Centre for Behavioural and Cognitive Experimental phonetics and sound change Science (CBCS), University of Allahabad Significant theoretical developments have taken DANIEL RECASENS, FERNANDO SÁNCHEZ MIRET place in language-cognition research in the last few decades. The collected chapters in this book & KENNETH J. WIREBACK (EDS.) provide extensive coverage of important areas of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Universidad de Salamanca; Miami University this research domain including bilingualism, sentence processing, and embodied cognition. The chapters written by experts provide the This book gathers some contributions from scholars working on the phonetic and reader the most up to date discussion about issues phonological causes of sound change. Experimental evidence collected during the last and controversies while providing theoretical and decades calls for the need to build up better models of sound change which incorporate empirical knowledge about these themes. In spite evidence from articulatory strategies, acoustic variation and perceptual categorization of the wide range of topics covered, there has mechanisms. The papers collected in this book deal with the explanation of several sound been an attempt to make the collection thematically coherent providing the state of the changes, i.e., vowel shift and diphthongization, consonant voicing, assimilation, art in language-cognition research. palatalization, vocalization and retroflexion, and with specific arrangements of places of The chapters have been written for both articulation in sibilant inventories. researchers as well as graduate students interested in basic issues in language-cognition research and Contents: their relevance for larger issues on language and Silvia Calamai & Irene Ricci, «Speech rate and articulatory patterns in Italian nasal-velar clusters». cognition. The other most significant aspect of Chiara Celata, «Rhotic retroflexion in Romance. Acoustic data for an articulation-driven sound this volume is the emphasis on multi-disciplinary change». approaches and cross-cultural emphasis. The Juan Felipe García Santos, «Experimental analysis of some acoustically driven phonetic changes in volume offers excellent material to researchers Medieval Spanish». who wish to compare studies across languages Daniel Recasens & Aina Espinosa, «A perceptual analysis of the articulatory and acoustic factors and cultural boundaries. The basic purpose of the triggering dark /l/ vocalization». volume then is to present substantially the main Joaquim Romero & Lucrecia Rallo, «An acoustic study of vowel shift in Majorcan Catalan». arguments and research themes as well as methodological issues in the broad area of Fernando Sánchez Miret, «The effect of word final unstressed high vowels on stressed vowel duration language-cognition research to a wider audience and its consequences for metaphonic diphthongization in Southern Italian». in linguistics, psycholinguistics, psychology, Marzena Żygis, «On changes in Slavic sibilant systems and their perceptual motivation». neurosciences and cognitive science. Kenneth Wireback, «A reexamination of the palatalization of Latin velar + dentoalveolar consonant sequences in the light of phonetic research». Falk Huettig The role of color during language- vision interactions ISBN 978 3 86288 000 3 (Hardbound). LINCOM Studies in Phonetics 05. 140pp. USD 118.50 / Patrick Sturt The psycholinguistics of structural EUR 98.00 / GBP 81.30. 2010. composition Matthew Traxler T Padma Subhadra, Sarika Cherodath, Latika different languages, even in widely separated Syntactic Priming in Comprehension: A Dual Singh & Nandini Singh geographical areas. Surprisingly, however, tendencies for features to diffuse vary among Mechanism Account Developmental profiles of language skills in bilingual children - assessments from speech areas with no consistent differences among Pascal Gygax & Ute Gabriel features. It follows that stability and diffusibility Gender representation in language: More than production tasks are separate dimensions rather than opposite ends meets the eye ISBN 978 3 86288 001 0 (Hardbound). LINCOM of the same dimension. Ramesh Mishra Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 44. 480 pp. ISBN 978 3 89586 538 1. 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It The book presents Optimality Theory (OT) as the Andriy Machykov, Simon Garrod & Christof discusses three alternative methods and tests their most influential recent framework for theoretical Scheepers performance by applying them to simulated phonological analyses, and proposes an OT Perceptual priming of structural choice during datasets having preset stabilities. The best metric model for analyzing the relationship between English and Finnish sentence production is then applied to the data of The World Atlas of continuous and discrete aspects of the cognitive Language Stuctures (Haspelmath et al. 2005) to system of human speech. The first three chapters Rob Hartsuiker produce empirical estimates of stability for 134 present the essential OT tools and practical Can bilinguals use language cues to restrict features and 445 feature values. The numerical descriptions of their use in data analysis. The lexical acces to the target language? results concur with many specific categorical fourth chapter is the core of the book. It starts Xin Wang statements in the typological literature, and also with a detailed description of the phonological The Bilingual Lexicon: Models and Implications substantiate the general suggestion that stable and phonetic properties of transparent vowels /i/ Probal Dasgupta features are more strongly interrelated than are and /e/ in Hungarian vowel harmony. Then, it Some Milestones in Language and Cognition unstable features. proposes extensions of the OT tools using the Studies The results also show that features have notions of non-linear dynamics. Finally, the approximately the same relative rates of change in chapter presents a formal OT model that accounts The LINCOM webshop: www.lincom.eu LINCOM EUROPA• project line 20 • 2010 ♦ 3 THEORETICAL LINGUISTICS/LINGUISTIC TYPOLOGY for the relationship between the phonetic and ISBN 978 3 929075 86 1. LINCOM Studies in in E and SA. Chapter four discusses the That- phonological characteristics of transparent Theoretical Linguistics 41. 273pp. USD Trace Effect in the two languages. Chapter five vowels. 103.60 / EUR 72.00 / GBP 66.20. 2009. aims at a discussion of the ECP account of the Štefan Beňuš has received PhD in linguistics long Wh-Movement of the Subjects from Wh- from New York University and is currently an Islands and the Null Resumptive Pronouns in E assistant professor at the Constantine the and SA. Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia. His Noam Chomsky on main research interests include laboratory Language and ISBN 978 3 929075 76 2. Linguistics Edition phonology and the relationship between prosody 75. 140 pp. USD 66.70 / EUR 54.20 / GBP and pragmatic functions of speech. Cognition 46.10. 2009. ISBN 978 3 89586 395 0. LINCOM Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 40. 151pp. USD 82.70 A. SUMRU ÖZSOY Studies in voice and / EUR 67.20 / GBP 57.10. 2009. & MINE NAKIPOĞLU (eds.) Boğazici University transitivity (Estudios de Development of This book presents a discussion by Noam voz y transitividad) Chomsky of some of the much controversial Language in Eyes of issues raised within the scientific field of ZARINA ESTRADA FERNÁNDEZ, SØREN Formal Grammar linguistics since the inception of generative WICHMANN, CLAUDINE CHAMOREAU, grammar in 1957. Based on the text of the talk given by Noam Chomsky at Boğaziçi University, ALBERT ÁLVAREZ GONZÁLEZ (eds.) P. KARLÍK (ed.) Istanbul, in 2002, the book presents Prof. Max-Planck-Institut, Leipzig Masaryk University Chomsky’s views on the philosophical bases and the historical development of the field of In this collection of papers the phenomenon of Formal approaches to language are typically biolinguistics in the course of which he focuses voice is addressed both synchronically and associated with synchronic linguistics whereas on issues such as cognition, linguistics as a diachronically, and both typological (or areal) diachronic linguistics is connected with science, how the field developed, its nature and perspectives as well as studies of individual traditional philological methods. The goal of this how it fits into the other domains of science. languages are represented. The majority of