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Title

Phonology as human behavior : theoretical implications and clinical applications / Yishai Tobin.

Author

Tobin, Y.

Publication

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 1997.

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Description

xx, 383 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

• Phonology as Human Behavior brings work in human cognition, behavior, and communication to bear on the study of phonology - the theory of sound systems in language. Yishai Tobin extends the ideas of William Diver - an influential linguist whose investigations into phonology reflect the principle that language represents a constant search for maximum communication with minimal effort - as a part of a new theory of phonology as human behavior.
• Showing the far-reaching psycho- and sociolinguistic utility of this theory, Tobin demonstrates its applicability to the teaching of phonetics, text analysis, and the theory of language acquisition.
• Tobin describes the methodological connection between phonological theory and phonetics by way of a comprehensive and insightful survey of phonology's controversial role in twentieth-century linguistics. He reviews the work of Saussure, Jakobson, Troubetzkoy, Martinet, Zipf, and Diver, among others, and discusses issues in distributional phonology through analyses of English, Italian, Latin, Hebrew, and Yiddish.
• Using his theory to explain various functional and pathological speech disorders, Tobin examines a wide range of deviant speech processes in aphasia, the speech of the hearing-impaired, and other syndromes of organic origin. Phonology as Human Behavior provides a unique set of principles connecting phylogeny, ontogeny, and pathology of sound systems in human language.

Series Statement

Sound and meaning

Uniform Title

Sound and meaning.

Subjects

• Grammar, Comparative and general > Phonology
• Speech disorders > Diagnosis
• Language disorders > Diagnosis
• Language acquisition
• Phonetics
• Contrastive linguistics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-373) and index.

Contents

I. Phonetics and Phonology: A Historical Overview. 1. Phonetics versus Phonology: The Prague School and Beyond. 2. Phonology as Human Behavior -- II. Phonology as Human Behavior across Languages. 3. The Italian and Latin Connections. 4. The Hebrew and Yiddish Connections -- III. Phonology as Human Behavior: Panchronic, Pedagogical, and Textual Applications. 5. Panchronic Applications in Hebrew Phonology. 6. Pedagogical and Textual Applications -- IV. Phonology as Human Behavior: Developmental and Clinical Applications. 7. Developmental Phonology and Functional Clinical Applications. 8. Clinical Applications to Organic Disorders -- V. Phonology as Human Behavior: Audiology and Aphasia. 9. Audiology, Hearing Impairment, and Cochlear Implants. 10. Aphasia.

ISBN

• 0822318083
• 0822318229 (pbk.)

LCCN

96013941

OCLC

ocm34473473

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Columbia University Libraries