Variable productivity: evidence from the English lax vowel constraint

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dc.contributor.authorWestby, Deanna
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-15T20:50:58Z
dc.date.available2016-06-15T20:50:58Z
dc.date.issued1984-06
dc.description.abstractThe productivity of the English Surface Phonetic Constraint which forbids the occurrence of a lax vowel word finally is tested by means of a number of experimental techniques, in order to ascertain whether apparent rule productivity varies in accordance with the particular criteria adopted: borrowing; memory for nonsense forms; a syllable division language game; and pluralization tasks including both recognition and production. The results of the experiments reported in section two demonstrate that there exists a methodological difficulty for claims about rule productivity: productivity tests do not all give the same results. For example, speakers make very few errors in repeating nonsense words ending in the disallowed lax vowel, yet no borrowings into English retain a final lax vowel from the source language. In addition, this research has some bearing on the usefulness of the tense/lax distinction for English vowels in such producitivity testing.en_US
dc.description.refereedYesen_US
dc.identifier.citationWestby, D. (1984). Variable productivity: evidence from the English lax vowel constraint. Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, 10(Summer), 56-96.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/28873
dc.identifier.issn2371-2643
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/51321
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Calgaryen_US
dc.publisher.departmentLinguisticsen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen_US
dc.subjectLinguisticsen_US
dc.subjectPhonologyen_US
dc.subjectEnglish languageen_US
dc.subjectPhoneticsen_US
dc.subjectConstraints (Linguistics)en_US
dc.subjectProductivity (Linguistics)en_US
dc.titleVariable productivity: evidence from the English lax vowel constrainten_US
dc.typejournal article
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