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Interference and Contemporary Phonological Theory *
Author(s) -
Singh Rajendra
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
language learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.882
H-Index - 103
eISSN - 1467-9922
pISSN - 0023-8333
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-1770.1991.tb00682.x
Subject(s) - phonology , theoretical linguistics , linguistics , psychology , state (computer science) , cognitive psychology , philosophy , mathematics , algorithm
Whereas some rules of L1 never cause interference, others almost always do. This paper examines, in detail, the accounts that contemporary theories of phonology provide of this state of affairs and argues for the hypothesis that only a theory that not only clearly separates morphologically dependent alternations from morphologically independent ones, but also incorporates the former directly into morphology (contra Chomsky & Halle, 1968; Hooper, 1976, Kiparsky, 1982), is up to the task. A large and representative body of data, available from previous studies, is examined and analyzed to support that hypothesis.