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| Related to LowBackVowelJournalSubmission * Why look at more than F1 F2 * Why are additional dimensions important for understanding diachronic change? * All vowel analyses require a vowel model---i.e. an operationalization of the acoustic space that lends itself to statistical analysis * Representign vowels as points in F1-F2 space is a robust vowel model but insufficient for questions of merger * What is a merger? What's the argument I want to make? ---- |
Becker (2019) argues that the LBMS is a structural change. It is initiated by the phonetic movement of BOT, but does not require completion of the Low Back Merger.
We ought distinguish structural changes from phonetic drift. A structural change is one in which the system of contrasts in the language changes. A non-structural change is when the phonetic implementation of a contrast changes without a change in the contrast itself. It's not clear that this is what Becker (2019) means by the term "structural".
Related to LowBackVowelJournalSubmission
- Why look at more than F1 F2
- Why are additional dimensions important for understanding diachronic change?
- All vowel analyses require a vowel model---i.e. an operationalization of the acoustic space that lends itself to statistical analysis
- Representign vowels as points in F1-F2 space is a robust vowel model but insufficient for questions of merger
- What is a merger?
What's the argument I want to make?