[Lingtyp] history of linguistics: phonological word

Alexander B. synru11 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 21 21:07:41 UTC 2019


I haven't really dug into the origin of the term "phonological word"
properly but it does seem the term was quite common in Soviet linguistics
already in the early 60s. For example, Shaumyan 1962 uses it two times,
Ivanov 1963 once, and it is already included into a dictionary of
linguistic terms (compiled by Akhmanova, 1966).

Akhmanova, O. S. 1966. *Slovar' lingvisticheskikh terminov*. Moskva: Sov.
entsiklopediya.
Ivanov, V. V. 1963. *Khettskiĭ i︠a︡zyk*. Moskva: Izd-vo vostochnoĭ lit-ry.
Shaumyan, Sebastian, and S. G. Barkhudarov. 1962. *Problemy teoreticheskoĭ
fonologii*. Moskva: Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR.

On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 12:02 PM Larry M. HYMAN <hyman at berkeley.edu> wrote:

> Not sure if everyone was similarly influenced, but this confirms my belief
> that Kenneth Pike either originated or was the most consistent proponent
> not only of the phonological word but of the phonological hierarchy
> subsequently adopted by others. See for example the following article which
> focuses on the phonological word in Otomí. Although later than those cited
> by Matthew (1968) refers back to Pike in footnote 3 (p.77):
>
> "The hierarchical concept untilized in the present discussion is based
> upon Kenneth Pike's theory (1954-60)."
>
> Wallis, Ethel E. 1968. The word and the phonological hierarchy of
> Mezquital Otomí. *Language* 44.76-90.
>
> Pike, Kenneth L. 1954 (vol. 1), 1955 (vol.2), 1960 (vol.3). Language in
> relation to a unified theory of the structure of human behavior Glendale:
> Summer Institute of Linguistics.
>
> I haven't gone back to check these works (or the Mouton book that came out
> a little later), but I suspect the winning lower bid is 1954, at least thus
> far.
>
>
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>
>
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 11:47 AM Dryer, Matthew <dryer at buffalo.edu> wrote:
>
>> The three earliest uses of the expression *phonological word* that I am
>> aware of are in
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>>
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>> Healey, Alan. (1964) The Ok Language Family in New Guinea. Australian
>> National University doctoral dissertation.
>>
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>> “There is a close, but not perfect, correlation between the phonological
>> and grammatical word.”
>>
>> (Miller, Wick R. (1965) Acoma grammar and texts (University of California
>> Publications in Linguistics 40). Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of
>> California Press.)
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>> “The phonological word has a stronger decrescendo of speed and intensity,
>> and sometimes of pitch than does the stress group. In slow speech the
>> phonological word usually corresponds with a grammatical word so that their
>> decrescendos overlap,* but in fast *speech several stress groups with
>> their included, mild decrescendos”
>>
>> (Eastman, Elizabeth & Robert Eastman. (1963) Iquito syntax. In Studies in
>> Peruvian Indian Languages 1, 145-192. Summer Institute of Linguistics.)
>>
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>> Matthew
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>>
>> *From: *Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of
>> TasakuTsunoda <tasakutsunoda at nifty.com>
>> *Date: *Monday, January 21, 2019 at 2:11 AM
>> *To: *Adam James Ross Tallman <ajrtallman at utexas.edu>, "
>> LINGTYP at listserv.linguistlist.org" <LINGTYP at listserv.linguistlist.org>
>> *Subject: *Re: [Lingtyp] history of linguistics: phonological word
>>
>>
>>
>> Dear Adam,
>>
>>
>>
>>     Please see the following book:
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>>         Lyons, John. 1968. Introduction to theoretical linguistics.
>> Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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>>
>> Pp68-70 have the following subsection:
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>>         2.2.11 Grammatical and phonological words
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>> Best wishes,
>>
>>
>>
>> Tasaku Tsunoda
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>> *送信元**: *Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> (Adam James
>> Ross Tallman <ajrtallman at utexas.edu> の代理)
>> *日付**: *2019年1月20日日曜日 7:44
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>> *件名**: *[Lingtyp] history of linguistics: phonological word
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>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm trying to trace the roots of the development of the concept of
>> "phonological word". Does anyone know who first used this term? The
>> earliest I can find is Dixon's (1977) grammar of Yidin. What about
>> "prosodic word"?
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm aware that the roots of the idea can be found much earlier than when
>> the concept was first mentioned, but I'm interested in the implicit analogy
>> between a morphosyntactic constituency and phonological constituency and
>> how, when and why that entered linguistics.
>>
>>
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>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>>
>>
>> best,
>>
>>
>>
>> Adam
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Adam J.R. Tallman
>>
>> Investigador del Museo de Etnografía y Folklore, la Paz
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