(c) How do phoneticians (33 ways) and phonologists (38 ways) do it?



It's enough to run a short query on the web to find out that phoneticians... don't do it at all :-(

Divers do it, lawyers do it, even ...:

- Linguists do it cunningly
- Linguists do it fluently
- Linguists do it in trees
- Linguists do it epenthetically
- Linguists do it with their tongues

... and phoneticians don't (neither do phonologists for that matter). This is a shame! Trying to show that phoneticians also do it, here's a bunch... I'll continue to add to it, with your help (I hope). Let's show everybody that we, phoneticians, also do it!

So, if linguists are so clever to do it with their tongues...

Phoneticians do it with the tip of the tongue.

... and ...

  • Phoneticians do it with frictionless continuants
  • Phoneticians do it with stops
  • Phoneticians do it bilabially
  • Phoneticians do it with a glottalic airstream
  • Phoneticians do it with no reduction under stress
  • Phoneticians do it without interference
  • Phoneticians do it with a laryngoscope
  • Phoneticians do it acoustically
  • Phoneticians do it with rhythm
  • Phoneticians do it with the head, body, nucleus and tail
  • Phoneticians do it heterophonically
  • Phoneticians do it in push- and drag-chains
  • Phoneticians do it with geminates
  • Phoneticians do it with sexisyllables
  • Phoneticians do it with the penult
  • Phoneticians do it in beats and binds (or was it natural phonologists?)
  • Phoneticians do it isochronically
  • Phoneticians do it distinctively (or was it phonemicists?)
  • Phoneticians do it in yods
  • Phoneticians do it with Jones
  • Phoneticians do it with melody
  • Phoneticians do it through rise and fall
  • Phoneticians do it with tongue control
  • Phoneticians do it ...?




  • Dafydd Gibbon contributed:

    Phoneticians do it...
  • ... with clicks, implosives and ejectives
  • ... exponentially
  • ... with downstep
  • ... nasally
  • ... spectrally
  • ... quadrilabially
  • ... dentally
  • ... with the Organ of Corti
  • ... with hammer, anvil and stirrup
  • ... with the eardrum




  • As it turns out, phonologists also do it (claims Przemysław Pawelec):

  • phonologists do it in cycles
  • phonologists do it across the board {postcyclic rules }
  • phonologists do it at different tiers
  • phonologists do it with a skeleton
  • phonologists do it with a mirror image
  • phonologists do it with intrinsic ordering
  • phonologists do it with extrinsic ordering
  • phonologists do it vacuously (or through vacuous application)
  • phonologists do it in minimal pairs
  • phonologists do it in angled brackets
  • phonologists do it with dependency
  • phonologists do it with government
  • phonologists do it with charm
  • phonologists do it as a result of split
  • phonologists do it as a result of merger
  • phonologists do it through fortition and lenition (or through strengthening and weakening)
  • phonologists do it with a peak
  • phonologists do it in a bleeding order
  • phonologists do it in a feeding order
  • phonologists do it with opacity
  • phonologists do it with positional neutralization
  • phonologists do it with an X-slot (yes!)
  • phonologists do it through spreading
  • phonologists do it with braces
  • phonologists do it with the help of association lines
  • phonologists do it with {vowel or consonant} harmony
  • phonologists do it with feet (!)
  • phonologists do it with {sonority or prosodic} hierarchy
  • phonologists do it with reduplication
  • phonologists do it with optimality!
  • phonologists do it in a more or less marked way
  • phonologists do it with minimal markedness
  • phonologists do it with faithfulness (yes, they do!)
  • phonologists do it with constraints
  • phonologists do it in order to choose the optimal candidate
  • phonologists do it because they have some input
  • phonologists do it because they need some output
  • phonologists do it because they know that all constraints are violable




  • Last update: 27th January 2003