The Sonority Controversy /

The Sonority Controversy / / ed. by Steve Parker.

Sonority has a long and contentious history. It has often been invoked by linguists as an explanatory principle underlying various cross-linguistic phonotactic generalizations, especially within the domain of the syllable. However, many phonologists and phoneticians have expressed concerns about the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Baer-Henney, Dinah,
Baertsch, Karen,
Bat-El, Outi,
Cser, András,
Fry, Michael,
Ghushchyan, Edita,
Gordon, Matthew,
Henke, Eric,
Jantunen, Tommi,
Kaisse, Ellen M.,
McDonnell, Bradley,
Miller, Brett,
Moreton, Elliott,
Parker, Steve,
Proctor, Michael,
Rosenblum, Daisy,
Shaw, Patricia A.,
Smith, Jennifer L.,
Tupper, Paul,
Vijver, Ruben van de,
Walker, Rachel,
Wright, Richard,
HerausgeberIn:
Parker, Steve,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Phonology and Phonetics [PP] , 18
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Physical Description:1 online resource (487 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of contributors
  • Introduction
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part 1: Sonority and Phonotactics
  • Sonority and sonority-based relationships within American English monosyllabic words
  • The role of sonority in the phonology of Latin
  • Is the Sonority Sequencing Principle an epiphenomenon?
  • Sonority distance vs. sonority dispersion – a typological survey
  • Sonority variation in Stochastic Optimality Theory: Implications for markedness hierarchies
  • Sonority intuitions are provided by the lexicon
  • Part 2: Sonority and Phonetics
  • Sonority and central vowels: A cross-linguistic phonetic study
  • Sonority and the larynx
  • Articulatory bases of sonority in English liquids
  • Part 3: Sonority and Language Acquisition
  • The Sonority Dispersion Principle in the acquisition of Hebrew word final codas
  • Part 4: Sonority and Sign Language
  • Acceleration peaks and sonority in Finnish Sign Language syllables
  • Part 5: Sonority and Computational Modeling
  • Sonority and syllabification in a connectionist network: An analysis of BrbrNet
  • References
  • Author index
  • Index of languages, dialects, and linguistic families
  • Subject index

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