Marginal Contrasts
The Contrastivist Hypothesis states that phonology only operates on features required to express lexical contrasts. The existence of ‘marginal’ contrasts challenges the contrastivist approach. This collection seeks to clarify the relevant notion of ‘contrast’ and define the relationship between the Contrastivist Hypothesis and other factors shaping observable phonological patterns.
Guest Editors: Daniel Currie Hall & Pavel Iosad
Articles
Marginal contrasts and the Contrastivist Hypothesis
Daniel Currie Hall and Kathleen Currie Hall
2016-12-06 2016 • Volume 1
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Gradient phonological relationships: Evidence from vowels in French
Sophia Stevenson and Tania Zamuner
2017-06-16 2017 • Volume 2
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Expressive Sibilant Retraction in North Norwegian: morpheme or ‘spoken gesture’?
Patrik Bye
2020-02-13 2020 • Volume 5
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Information structure and syntactic change
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Formal Approaches to Dialectal Syntax
Rhotics in Phonological Theory
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Marginal Contrasts
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Partitives
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Palatalization