THEORY: Phonology (was: Re: THEORY: vowel harmony)

On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, dirk elzinga wrote:

> One of the properties of natural language phonology that linguists are
> coming to understand more and more is the role that physiology and
> acoustics plays in the more abstract sound pattern of a language. (This
> has always been appreciated, but not well understood, and never
> formalized.)
This remark would seem to place you firmly within the UCLA Phonology
camp (if I can call it that), which believes that acoustic factors
affect phonology, and firmly outside the MIT camp, which seems to
believe that acoustics and phonology have nothing to do with each
other... :-)

Matt.