Segment in Phonetics and Phonology

Eric Raimy is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison whose research centers on phonology from a cognitive science perspective. His most recent publications are The Handbook of the Syllable (ed. Cairns and Raimy, 2011) and Wisconsin Talk (co-edited with Thomas Purnell and Joseph Salmons, 2013). Charles E. Cairns is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at City University of New York, and his research specializes in phonology. His latest publications include Contemporary Views on Architecture and Representation in Phonology (co-ed. Raimy and Cairns, 2009).

• Notes on Contributors vii1 Introduction 1Eric Raimy and Charles E. CairnsPart I Is Segmentation Real? 232 The Segment in Articulatory Phonology 25Carol A. Fowler3 Beyond the Segment 44Markus A. Pöchtrager4 A Prosodic Theory of Vocalic Contrasts 65Chris Golston and Wolfgang Kehrein5 Segmentation and Pinky Extension in ASL Fingerspelling 103Jonathan Keane, Diane Brentari, and Jason Riggle6 Categorical Segments, Probabilistic Models 129Kathleen Currie HallPart II What Are the Roles of Segments in Phonology? 1477 The Opponent Principle in RcvP: Binarity in a Unary System 149Harry van der Hulst8 Why the Palatal Glide Is Not a Consonant in Japanese: A Dependency]based Analysis 180Kuniya Nasukawa9 Determining Cross]Linguistic Phonological Similarity Between Segments: The Primacy of Abstract Aspects of Similarity 199Charles B. Chang10 Contrast and Vowel Features 218San Duanmu11 The Phonetics and Phonology of Segment Classification: A Case Study of /v/ 236Christina BjorndahlPart III Case Studies 25112 The Perception of Vowel Quality and Quantity by Turkish Learners of German as a Foreign Language 253Katharina Nimz13 Compensatory Lengthening in Hungarian VnC Sequences: Phonetic or Phonological? 267Mária Gósy and Robert M. Vago14 Pari Consonant Mutation as Defective Root Node Affixation 283Jochen Trommer15 Templates as Affixation of Segment]sized Units: The Case of Southern Sierra Miwok 314Eva ZimmermannIndex 337