Volume 04, Spring 1978
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- ItemOpen AccessCalgary Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 4, Spring 1978(University of Calgary, 1978-05) De Guzman, Videa P.; Herbert, Robert K.This issue is the fourth in the series of working papers published by LOGOS, the student linguistics club at The University of Calgary. The series provides a vehicle for publications by faculty members and students; these papers represent research in progress and are therefore not to be considered as final statements by the authors. The appearance of these articles in the current issue does not preclude their publication in altered form elsewhere.
- ItemOpen AccessPhonological explanation in the theory of phonetics: the distributional frequency of half-nasal consonants(University of Calgary, 1978-05) Herbert, Robert KThe past several years have witnessed a significant increase in the role accorded explanation within linguistic theory. There have been numerous attempts to explain linguistic phenomena on all levels of analysis by reference to linguistic and extralinguistic factors. This concern is not novel. The direction it has taken presently, however, can be traced to a dissatisfaction with the very formal and abstract conceptualization of explanation within early generative grammar. In this paper, I would like to consider briefly the present status of explanation in the area of intersection between phonology and phonetics and to suggest that just as we have come to recognize the perils of a phonetics-free theory of phonology, there can be no such phonology-free theory of phonetics.