Transmissibility and the role of the phonological component

Abstract

Abstract Determining the structure of the phonological component is crucial in understanding the predictive power of theories of transmissibility like Evolutionary Phonology. This article argues for a highly restricted, innatist phonological component. It discusses two testable predictions: the ‘straitjacket’ effect limits functionally well-motivated phenomena in arbitrary ways, the ‘functional ignorance’ effect means that some functionally well-motivated phenomena never occur. A restricted phono-logical component means that the explanatory domain of Evolutionary Phonology (and theories of transmissibility more generally) is i-language external phenomena, such as typological frequency.

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