Abstract
The traditional phoneme analysis of the Danish consonant inventory links onset
and coda consonants on the basis of historical alternations and morphologically
conditioned alternations within a small subset of the Danish lexicon. This
traditional analysis proposes a system resulting in a large number of neutraliza-
tions that cannot be dissolved, and in which allophones of the same phoneme
lack shared phonetic content. We argue that the system proposed by the
traditional analysis is impossible to learn from the language input, which
renders the analysis an implausible description of the Danish consonant system.
On the basis of theoretical discussions, we offer an alternative phoneme analy-
sis, which we believe to be learnable from the data available in the language
input. Our analysis is based on insights from Natural Phonology and
Bidirectional Phonetics and Phonology. We propose a system without undissol-
vable neutralizations, with shared phonetic content between allophones of the
same phoneme, and without the need to rely on alternations that children are
unlikely to learn in early childhood
and coda consonants on the basis of historical alternations and morphologically
conditioned alternations within a small subset of the Danish lexicon. This
traditional analysis proposes a system resulting in a large number of neutraliza-
tions that cannot be dissolved, and in which allophones of the same phoneme
lack shared phonetic content. We argue that the system proposed by the
traditional analysis is impossible to learn from the language input, which
renders the analysis an implausible description of the Danish consonant system.
On the basis of theoretical discussions, we offer an alternative phoneme analy-
sis, which we believe to be learnable from the data available in the language
input. Our analysis is based on insights from Natural Phonology and
Bidirectional Phonetics and Phonology. We propose a system without undissol-
vable neutralizations, with shared phonetic content between allophones of the
same phoneme, and without the need to rely on alternations that children are
unlikely to learn in early childhood
| Bidragets oversatte titel | En fonetisk baseret fonemanalyse af det danske konsonantsystem |
|---|---|
| Originalsprog | Engelsk |
| Tidsskrift | Acta Linguistica Hafniensia: International Journal of Linguistics |
| Vol/bind | 54 |
| Udgave nummer | 1 |
| Sider (fra-til) | 73-105 |
| Antal sider | 33 |
| ISSN | 0374-0463 |
| DOI | |
| Status | Udgivet - jan. 2022 |
| Udgivet eksternt | Ja |