References: Markedness and the Contrastive Hierarchy in Phonology

Markedness and the Contrastive Hierarchy in Phonology

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Archangeli, D. 1988. Aspects of underspecification theory. Phonology 5. 183–207.

Archangeli, D. & D. Pulleyblank. 1989. Yoruba vowel harmony. Linguistic Inquiry 20. 173–217.

Avery, P. 1996. The representation of voicing contrasts. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Toronto.

Avery, P., B. E. Dresher & K. Rice. forthcoming. Contrast in phonology: Theory, perception, acquisition. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

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Beckman, J. 1997b. Positional faithfulness. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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Cairns, C. 1969. Markedness, neutralization and universal redundancy rules. Language 45. 863–885.

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Calabrese, A. 2005. Markedness and economy in a derivational model of phonology. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

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Causley, T. 1999. Complexity and markedness in Optimality Theory. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Toronto.

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Clements, G. N. 1988. Toward a substantive theory of feature specification. In J. Blevins & J. Carter (eds.), Proceedings of NELS 18. 79–93.

Clements, G. N. 2001. Representational economy in constraint-based phonology. In T.A. Hall (ed.), Distinctive feature theory, 71–146. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

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Compton, R. in progress. Contrast in the consonant inventories of Inuit, Greenlandic and Yupik. Ms., University of Toronto.

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D’Arcy, A. 2001. Yawelmani reexamined: A contrastive analysis. Ms., University of Toronto.

D’Arcy, A. 2003. Unconditional neutrality: Vowel harmony in a two-place model. Ms., University of Toronto.

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Dinnsen, D. A. 1996. Context sensitive underspecification and the acquisition of phonetic contrasts. Journal of Child Language 23. 31–55.

Dinnsen, D. A., S. B. Chin, M. Elbert & T. W. Powell. 1990. Some constraints on functionally disordered phonologies: Phonetic inventories and phonotactics. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research 33. 28–37.

Dresher, B. E. 2002. Determining contrastiveness: A missing chapter in the history of phonology. In S. Burelle & S. Somesfalean (eds.), Proceedings of the 2002 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, 82–93. Département de linguistique et de didactiques des langues, Université due Québec à Montréal, 2002.

Dresher, B. E. 2003a. Contrast and asymmetries in inventories. In A.-M. di Sciullo (ed.), Asymmetry in grammar, Volume 2: Morphology, phonology, acquisition, 239–257. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Dresher, B. E. 2003b. The contrastive hierarchy in phonology. Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics (Special Issue on Contrast in Phonology), 20. 47–62.

Dresher, B. E. 2004. On the acquisition of phonological contrasts. In J. van Kampen & S. Baauw (eds.), Proceedings of GALA 2003, Volume 1 (LOT Occasional Series 3), 27–46. LOT, Utrecht.

Dresher, B. E. forthcoming. The contrastive hierarchy in phonology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Dresher, B. E. & H. van der Hulst. 1998. Head-dependent asymmetries in phonology: Complexity and visibility. Phonology 15. 317–352.

Dresher, B. E., G. L. Piggott & K. Rice. 1994. Contrast in phonology: Overview. Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 13.1. iii–xvii.

Dresher, B.E. & K. Rice. 1994. Complexity in phonological representations. Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 12. i–iv.

Dresher, B. E. &  X. Zhang. 2005. Contrast and phonological  activity in Manchu vowel systems. Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 50, 45–82.

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Fikkert, P. 1994. On the Acquisition of Prosodic Structure. (HIL dissertations 6). Dordrecht: IGC Printing.

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Flemming, E. 2002. Auditory representations in phonology. New York, London: Routledge.

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Frigeni, C. in progress. Representations and domains in the phonology of Sardinian. Ph. D. dissertation, University of Toronto.

Frisch, S. 1996.  Similarity and frequency in phonology. Ph. D. dissertation, Northwestern University.

Frisch, S., J. Pierrehumbert & M. Broe 2004. Similarity avoidance and the OCP. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 22. 179–228.

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Ghini, M. 2001b. Place of articulation first. In T.A. Hall (ed.), Distinctive feature theory. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 147–176.

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Hall, D. C. 1998. Contrastive specification for voicing in Czech. Paper presented at the Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop, University of Ottawa.

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Hall, D. C. 2002. Prophylactic features and implicit contrast. Paper presented at the Second International Conference on Contrast in Phonology, University of Toronto.

Hall, D. C. 2007. The role and representation of contrast in phonological theory. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Toronto.

Halle, M. 1959. The sound pattern of Russian. The Hague: Mouton.

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Hayes, B., R. Kirchner & D. Steriade (eds.). 2004. Phonetically-based phonology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Herd, J. 2005. Loanword adaptation and the evaluation of similarity. Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 24. 65–116.

Hirayama, M. 2002. Contrast in Japanese vowels. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association.

Hirayama, M. in progress. Accent in Japanese. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Toronto.

Hulst, H.G. van der. 1994. Radical CV phonology: The locational gesture. UCL Working Papers in Linguistics 6. 439–477.

Hulst, H.G. van der. 1995. Radical CV phonology: The categorial gesture. In J. Durand & F. Katamba (eds.), Frontiers of phonology: Atoms, structures, derivations. London: Longman. 80–116.

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Hume, E. 2003. Language specific markedness: The case of place of articulation . Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology. 9. 295–310.

Hume, E. & G. Tserdanelis. 2002. Labial unmarkedness in Sri Lankan Portuguese Creole. Phonology 19. 441–458.

Hyman, L. M. 2001. Vowel harmony in Gunu. Studies in African Linguistics 30. 146–170.

Hyman, L. M. 2002. On the limits of phonetic determinism in phonology: *NC revisited. In E. Hume & K. Johnson (eds.), The role of perception in phonology. Academic Press.

Hyman, L. M. 2003. ‘Abstract’ vowel harmony in Ka$lç$N: A system-driven account. In P. Sauzet & A. Zribi-Hertz (eds.), Typologie des langues d’Afrique et universaux de la grammaire, 85–112. Paris: l’Harmattan.

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Ingram, D. 1988. Jakobson revisited: Some evidence from the acquisition of Polish phonology. Lingua 75. 55–82.

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Jongstra, W. 2002. The perception and production of word-initial consonant clusters by Dutch L1 learners. Paper presented at the Second International Conference on Contrast in Phonology, University of Toronto.

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