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Phonetic Universals

Chodroff, Eleanor (2025). Phonetic Universals. Annual Review of Linguistics, 11(1):251-273.

Abstract

Understanding the range and limits of crosslinguistic variation stands at the core of linguistic typology and basic science. Linguistic typology is concerned with the relevant dimensions along which languages can vary and those along which they remain stable; an overarching goal is to understand the cognitive, physical, social, and historical factors that shape language. Phonetics is no exception to this enterprise, but it has faced obstacles in crosslinguistic data collection and processing power. The field has nevertheless established a solid foundation regarding the relevant dimensions of stability, revealing strong phonetic tendencies across languages (i.e., universals). This article provides an overview of phonetic universals with a summary of previously attested descriptive and analytic phonetic universals and consideration of methodological aspects when investigating phonetic universals. The increasing availability of multilingual speech data along with advanced speech processing tools promises a new era for investigations into crosslinguistic phonetic variation and systematicity.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, further contribution
Communities & Collections:06 Faculty of Arts > Institute of Computational Linguistics
06 Faculty of Arts > Zurich Center for Linguistics
Dewey Decimal Classification:410 Linguistics
000 Computer science, knowledge & systems
Language:English
Date:3 February 2025
Deposited On:10 Jan 2025 10:37
Last Modified:05 Feb 2025 02:04
Publisher:Annual Reviews
ISSN:2333-9691
OA Status:Closed
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011724-121511
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