8.1537, Sum: Immanent Approach, Distinctive Features

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Subject: 8.1537, Sum: Immanent Approach, Distinctive Features

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Date:  Sun, 26 Oct 1997 10:54:38 +0800 (CST)
From:  wzyem at pubms.pku.edu.cn
Subject:  Immanent Approach

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Date:  Mon, 27 Oct 1997 13:01:05 BST
From:  "Clare Gallaway" <GALLAWAY at fs1.ed.man.ac.uk>
Subject:  Distinctive Features

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Sun, 26 Oct 1997 10:54:38 +0800 (CST)
From:  wzyem at pubms.pku.edu.cn
Subject:  Immanent Approach


I am wondering what linguists mean by the word "immanent" which is used to
describe linguistic approaches.
In their "Phonology and Phonetics," Roman Jakobson and Morris Halle call
theirs to phonology as an "inner approach," and classify Hjelmslev's
algebraic view as an outer approach. However, Hjelmslev seems to claim his
approach to language is an immanent one. The following are their words.

J&H: For the connection and delimination of phonology (especially
phonemics) and phonetics., the crucial question is the nature of the
relationship between phonological entities and sound.... This so-to-speak
inner, IMMANENT approach, which locates the distinctive features and their
bundles within the speech sounds, be it on their motor, acoustical or
auditory level, is the most appropriate premise for phonetic operation,
although it has been repeatedly contested by outer approaches which in
different ways divorce phonemes from concrete sounds...

Hjelmslev: The study of language, with its multifarious, essentially
transcendent aims, has many cultivators; The theory of language, with its
purely immanent aim, few. in this connection, the theory of language must
not be confused with the philosophy of language.
   Avoiding the hitherto dominant transcendent point of view and seeking
an immanent understanding of language as self-subsistent, specific
structure, and seeking a constant within language itself, not outside it,
linguistic theory begins by circumscribing the scope of its object...

Thank you.
Wang Zhenyu


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Date:  Mon, 27 Oct 1997 13:01:05 BST
From:  "Clare Gallaway" <GALLAWAY at fs1.ed.man.ac.uk>
Subject:  Distinctive Features

From
Clare Gallaway
University of Manchester

Earlier in the month I posted a request for references on the use of
distinctive feature analysis to measure progress in children with
phonological output problems.  My colleagues pass on their thanks to
all those who replied:

Dr. Stefan Frisch
Dr.Adele Miccio
Prof Yishai Tobin

For the sake of brevity, I just list here all the references that
were given.

Costello, J. & Onstein, J.(1976)  The modification  of multiple
articulation errors based on distinctive feature theory. JSpHDis, 41,
199-215.

Dinnsen, D.A., Chin, S.B., Elbert, M. and Powell, T.W. (1990) Some
constraints on functionally disordered phonologies: phonetic
inventories and phonotactics.  JSpHRes, 33, 28-37.

Gierut, J.A. (1992) The conditions and  course of clinically-induced
phonological change. JSpHRes., 35, 1049-1063.

McReynolds, L.V. & Engmann, D. (1975) Distinctive feature analysis of
misarticulations. (workbook) Baltimore, MD; University Park Press.

McReynolds, L.V. & Bennett, S. (1972) Distinctive feature
generalization in  articulation training. JSpHDis, 37, 462-470.

McReynolds, L.V.& Huston, K. (1981) A distinctive feature analysis
of children's misarticulations. JSpHDis, 36,  155-166.

Tobin, Y. 1997. Phonology as Human Behaviour: Theoretical
Implications and Clinical Applications. Duke University Press.


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