Evolutionary Phonology: The Emergence of Sound Patterns

By Juliette Blevins. 2004

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Speech Production as State Feedback Control (2011, background): “Although the sound inventory of a language partly reflects constraints averaged over the history of its speakers (MacNeilage, 1998; MacNeilage and Davis, 2001; Blevins, 2004; Hayes and Steriade, 2004), a particular speaker’s vocal apparatus will not be perfectly matched to the language’s sounds.”
Learning Phonology With Substantive Bias: An Experimental and Computational Study of Velar Palatalization (2006, background): “…4) and Experiment 2 (Section 5) support substantively biased phonology over a formally-equivalent but unbiased alternative, thus defusing the arguments from theoretical simplicity that have been advanced in favor of evolutionary phonology (Blevins, 2004; Hale & Reiss, 2000; Ohala, 1992, 1995).”
Zipf's law of abbreviation as a language universal (2016, background): “From this perspective, universals are not only properties of currently attested languages (synchronic universals), but rather universal processing constraints that play out on the evolutionary time scale [6], [17], [18], [5], [2], [7].”
Grammaticalization as Optimization (2010, background): “This is certainly a normal occurrence in languge acquisition, and it is implicated in many types of change, including grammaticalization, but also nalogical change, probably much of semantic change, and at least some types of sound change (Blevins 2004).”
The bilingual advantage in phonetic learning* (2014, background): “Similarly, sound changes that take place over long timeframes have also been argued to favor phonetically natural regularities over unnatural ones (Blevins, 2004; Ohala, 1992).”
Analytic bias and phonological typology* (2008, background): “…of channel bias include differences in perceptual similarity between sounds (Ohala 1993), differences in auditory robustness of acoustic cues (Chang et al. 2001), and cognitive biases, specific to language, in how acoustic cues are parsed into phonological representations (Blevins 2004: 151–153).”
A theoretical synopsis of Evolutionary Phonology (2006, background): “In this case, consolidating the work of Ohala (1983, 1997), Steriade (1993, 1999), Blevins (2004a), and Vaux and Samuels (2004), three primary phonetic factors, one relevant domain factor, and general aerodynamic factors converge to produce common trajectories of final devoicing.”