Phonetic space

Phonetic space is the range of sounds that can be made by an individual.[1] There is some controversy over whether an individual's phonetic space is language dependent, or if there exists some common, innate, phonetic space across languages.[2]

Phonetic Space is a concept pioneered by Martin Joos in 1948[3] and developed by Gordon E. Peterson in 1951[4] and Noam Chomsky in 1968.[5] Chomsky developed the idea that phonetic space is universal and every human is born with a discrete phonetic space.[5] The most cited rebuttal of Chomsky's proposal of a universal and discrete phonetic space is an article by Port and Leary titled, "Against Formal Phonology".[6] Applications of phonetic space include interlanguage phonetic comparison and phonological analysis.[2]

  1. ^ Port, Robert F. (October 1981). "On the structure of the phonetic space with special reference to speech timing". Lingua. 55 (2–3): 181–219. doi:10.1016/0024-3841(81)90062-0.
  2. ^ a b Singh, Anil Kumar, Taraka Rama, and Pradeep Dasigi. "A Computational Model of the Phonetic Space and Its Applications."
  3. ^ Joos, Martin (April 1948). "Acoustic Phonetics". Language. 24 (2): 5–136. doi:10.2307/522229. JSTOR 522229.
  4. ^ Peterson, Gordon E. (October 1951). "The Phonetic Value of Vowels". Language. 27 (4): 541–553. doi:10.2307/410041. JSTOR 410041.
  5. ^ a b Chomsky, Noam. The Sound Pattern of English. N.p., 1991. Print.
  6. ^ Port, Robert F.; Leary, Adam P. (2005). "Against Formal Phonology" (PDF). Language. 81 (4): 927–964. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.68.8395. doi:10.1353/lan.2005.0195. ISSN 1535-0665. S2CID 354780.