Conversational phonetics: some aspects of news receipts in everyday talk 论文

摘要

Phonological theory is in a mess. The mess is of two kinds – the 'theory' isn't really theory, and there is an almost total lack of genuine interest in relating the so-called phonological analysis to a serious and sensible phonetics. These days phonology often seems to be more concerned with pictures on paper (pick up any book on autosegmental or metrical phonology) and specious universality than with the abstraction of categories from speech, the specification of their contrastivity-domains and the explication of their exponency or phonetic interpretation.