Mike Maxwell: taxonomic phonemics (reply to Dan Everett)

[Martha McGinnis]

Dan Everett wrote:

>The really neat idea behind SP in Lexical Phonology,
>as I understand it, is that lexical rules will be structure-
>preserving *because* in the lexicon there are no
>allophones, only phonemes of one sort or another...
>(Now, the output of the lexicon, according to Mohanon
>and others, turns out to be the so-called taxonomic
>phoneme of structuralism.  This is a good result,
>since it turns out, according to some LP research
>and a lot of structuralist work, that people have
>intuitions not about abstract or systematic phonemes,
>but about taxonomic phonemes (the crucial
>structuralist and descriptivist evidence for this
>comes from reports of speaker reactions in learning
>to use an orthography based on taxonomic
>phonemes).)

I'd like to follow up on this, but I fear this is not the right mailing
list.  Nor do I wish to 'talk' with Dan (alone) by email, since it would be
interesting to hear more opinions (assuming there are still many lexical
phonologists out there, since OT seems to have taken over :-().  Is anyone
aware of a more suitable forum?

      Mike Maxwell
      Linguistic Data Consortium
      maxwell at ldc.upenn.edu