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Area of Science:

  • Linguistics
  • Phonology
  • Psycholinguistics

Background:

  • Phonological features vary in frequency across languages.
  • The reasons for this variation are debated, with theories including universal markedness constraints and functional pressures (e.g., auditory/articulatory ease, lexical frequency).

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the claim that empirical findings challenge abstract markedness constraints in phonology.
  • To demonstrate the continued explanatory utility of the markedness hypothesis.

Main Methods:

  • Commentary on existing research by Romani et al. (2017).
  • Analysis of the relationship between phonological markedness, acquisition order, and speech error patterns in clinical populations.

Main Results:

  • Romani et al. found that phonological feature markedness correlates with acquisition order and speech errors in apraxia of speech.
  • These findings were interpreted as challenging abstract markedness constraints.
  • This commentary argues that the empirical data do not falsify abstract markedness.

Conclusions:

  • Phonological markedness is not inherently vague or unfalsifiable.
  • Empirical findings, including those from Romani et al., do not invalidate abstract markedness constraints.
  • The possibility of abstract phonological markedness constraints remains open.