Strength Relations in Phonology /

Strength Relations in Phonology / / ed. by Kuniya Nasukawa, Phillip Backley.

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This collection of papers focuses on the general theme of phonological strength, bringing together current work being undertaken in a variety of leading theoretical frameworks. Its aim is to show how referring directly to strength relations can facilitate explanation in different parts of the phonol...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Backley, Phillip,
Baertsch, Karen,
Botma, Bert,
Davis, Stuart,
Dinnsen, Daniel A.,
Ewen, Colin J.,
Farris-Trimble, Ashley W.,
Harris, John,
Hermans, Ben,
Kula, Nancy C.,
Marten, Lutz,
Nasukawa, Kuniya,
Sanoudaki, Eirini,
Shiraishi, Hidetoshi,
Yoshida, Yuko,
HerausgeberIn:
Backley, Phillip,
Nasukawa, Kuniya,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] , 103
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Physical Description:1 online resource (400 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Segmental strength
  • Why final obstruent devoicing is weakening
  • Headship as melodic strength
  • Transparency in nasal harmony and the limits of reductionism
  • Developmental shifts in phonological strength relations
  • Strength relations and first language acquisition
  • Modelling initial weakenings
  • Part II: Prosodic strength
  • Against rhymal adjuncts: the syllabic affiliation of English postvocalic consonants
  • Defining initial strength in clusterless languages in Strict CV
  • Strength relations between consonants: a syllable-basedOT approach
  • The phonological structure of the Limburg tonal accents
  • Projection of licensing potency from a phonological expression
  • Backmatter

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