Lenition and Fortition /

Lenition and Fortition / / ed. by Joaquim Brandão de Carvalho, Tobias Scheer, Philippe Ségéral.

There are books on tone, coronals, the internal structure of segments, vowel harmony, and a couple of other topics in phonology. This book aims to fill the gap for Lenition and Fortition, which is one of the first phenomena that was addressed by phonologists in the 19th century, and ever since contr...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
HerausgeberIn:
Brandão de Carvalho, Joaquim,
Scheer, Tobias,
Ségéral, Philippe,
MitwirkendeR:
Bye, Patrick,
Carvalho, Joaquim Brandõ,
Cyran, Eugeniusz,
Holsinger, Favid J.,
Honeybone, Patrick,
Jaskula, Krzysztof,
Kristó, Lásló,
Marotta, Giovanna,
Pöchtrager, Markus,
Scheer, Tobias,
Shiraishi, Hidetoshi,
Smith, Jennifer L.,
Szigetvári, Péter,
Ségéral, Philippe,
Sérégal, Philippe,
de Lacy, Paul,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] , 99
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Physical Description:1 online resource (597 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction to the volume
  • Part One - Properties and behaviour of Lenition and Frotition
  • Lenition, weaking and consonantal strenght: tracing concepts through the history of phonology
  • What and where?
  • Posotional factors in Lenition and Fortition
  • Metrical influences on fortition and lenition
  • Part two - Lenition patterns in particular languages and language families
  • Western Romance
  • Lenition in Tuscan Italian (Gorgia Toscana)
  • Germanic prosody and consonantal strength
  • Slavonic
  • Celtic
  • Finnish Consonant Gradation
  • Nivkh
  • Part Three - Analysis: how Lenitition dnd Fortition work
  • From Positions to Transitions: A Contour-Based Account of Lenition
  • Constant Clusters in Strong and Weak Positions
  • The Coda Mirror, stress and positional parameters
  • Markedness, faithfulness, positions, and contexts: Lenition and Fortition in Optimality Theory
  • Two directions for lenition
  • Backmatter

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