Charles Reiss
List of John Benjamins publications in which Charles Reiss is involved.
2020 Geminates and vowel laxing in Quebec French Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 16: Selected papers from the 47th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Newark, Delaware, Vogel, Irene (ed.), pp. 65–76 | Chapter
Laxing and harmony in Quebec French (QF) high vowels shows dialectal, register and perhaps even lexical variation. A recent proposal to handle some of the data (Poliquin 2006) contains a radical innovation to phonological theory concerning long-distance segment interactions. We question the… read more
2017 Chapter 2. Contrast is irrelevant in phonology: A simple account of Russian /v/ as /V/ Beyond Markedness in Formal Phonology, Samuels, Bridget D. (ed.), pp. 23–46 | Chapter
Halle’s (1959) argument against a distinction between morphophonemic and phonemic rules can be understood as an argument against the relevance of contrast to phonology. After adducing further arguments against a role for contrast, the paper provides a simple contrast-free analysis of the classic… read more
2016 Symbol taxonomy in biophonology Biolinguistic Investigations on the Language Faculty, Di Sciullo, Anna Maria (ed.), pp. 41–54 | Article
We present phonological parallels to Gallistel & King’s (2009) discussion of symbols, variables and function in animal cognition in order to take up Poeppel’s (2012) challenge to cognitive scientists to formulate their models in general computational terms that can potentially be translated into… read more
2012 Towards a bottom-up approach to phonological typology Towards a Biolinguistic Understanding of Grammar: Essays on interfaces, Di Sciullo, Anna Maria (ed.), pp. 169–192 | Article
The set of combinatoric possibilities of even simple formal systems explodes quickly. Adopting (perhaps overly) simple assumptions about phonological representation and computation, we show that, with just a handful of featural primitives, the number of possible segments, the number of possible… read more
2004 Romance and ‘Something Else’ Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2002: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Groningen, 28–30 November 2002, Bok-Bennema, Reineke, Bart Hollebrandse, Brigitte Kampers-Manhe and Petra Sleeman (eds.), pp. 141–162 | Article
2003 Towards a theory of fundamental phonological relations Asymmetry in Grammar: Volume 2: Morphology, phonology, acquisition, Di Sciullo, Anna Maria (ed.), pp. 215–238 | Article
1997 The Origin of the nn/ð Alternation in Old Icelandic NOWELE Volume 30 (March 1997), pp. 135–158 | Article