Linguistic Preferences / / ed. by Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna, Laura Catharine Smith.

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 358
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Physical Description:1 online resource (X, 326 p.) :; 1 Video
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Preferences
  • Part I: Gradience and preference ranking
  • Prosodic templates in Algonquian reduplication and initial change
  • Amurdak intersyllabic phonotactics and morphophonemic alternations as motivated by the Contact Law
  • Shortening as a window on phonological grammar
  • Moving from syllables to feet in the prosodic hierarchy: How foot-based templates reflect prosodic preferences
  • Part II: Prioritisation and the inferring of preferences from observed choices
  • Danish Stød in the light of morae, the Weight Law and sonority (strength): A personal view
  • Towards phonetic explanations for preferred sound patterns
  • The first person singular subject negative portmanteau in Luganda and Lusoga
  • The laryngeal preference, Saussure, and his politics
  • Part III: Comparative evaluation and the inherent “predictive” purpose of preferences
  • Preference laws and a new interpretation of Modern Bulgarian “liquid metathesis”
  • Syllable structure and sonority in Modern Irish
  • Preference theory and the uneven progress of degemination in Middle English
  • The principle of scopal serialisation: Wackernagel position and mirrored Wackernagel position
  • Tabula Gratulatoria
  • Index