Paul Boersma
List of John Benjamins publications in which Paul Boersma is involved.
2011 A programme for bidirectional phonology and phonetics and their acquisition and evolution Bidirectional Optimality Theory, Benz, Anton and Jason Mattausch (eds.), pp. 33–72 | Article
This paper summarizes an existing bidirectional six-level model of phonology and phonetics (and a bit of morphology). Bidirectionality in this case refers to the modelling of both the speaking process (production) and the listening process (comprehension). The elements of the grammar (the… read more
2009 Loanword adaptation as first-language phonological perception Loan Phonology, Calabrese, Andrea and W. Leo Wetzels (eds.), pp. 11–58 | Article
We show that loanword adaptation can be understood entirely in terms of phonological and phonetic comprehension and production mechanisms in the first language. We provide explicit accounts of several loanword adaptation phenomena (in Korean) in terms of an Optimality-Theoretic grammar model with… read more
2003 Nasal harmony in functional phonology The Phonological Spectrum: Volume I: Segmental structure, Weijer, Jeroen van de, Vincent J. van Heuven and Harry van der Hulst (eds.), pp. 3–35 | Article
2003 Optimality Theory and phonological acquisition Annual Review of Language Acquisition: Volume 3 (2003), Santelmann, Lynn, Maaike Verrips, Frank Wijnen and Clara Levelt (eds.), pp. 1–50 | Article