| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 303 pages) : illustrations |
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Outstanding dissertations in linguistics |
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Outstanding dissertations in linguistics.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1. Overview of the Survey; 2. Previous Approaches; 3. An Effort-Based Approach to Lenition; 4. Structure of the Dissertation; Chapter 2: Articulatory Effort; 1. The Neuromuscular Basis of Effort; 2. A Biomechanical Approach to Effort; 3. Precision; 4. Effort Minimization and Voicing Lenition; 5. Summary; Chapter 3: Representational Issues; 1. Smolensky's Challenge to the Standard Model; 2. A Definition of Contrastiveness; 3. Faithfulness |
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4. A Language-Specific Predictable Property: Aspiration in English5. Universally Non-Contrastive Properties: Vowel Duration; 6. Generalizing the Result: the Contrastiveness Theorem; 7. Categorical Effects with Continuous Representations; 8. Lenition or Fortition with Indeterminate UR's; 9. Summary; Chapter 4: Spirantization and Stridency; 1. Documenting the Generalization; 2. An Effort-Based Explanation; 3. Formal Capture of the Phonetic Explanation; 4. Lenition of Affricates; 5. Analysis of Assibilation; 6. Summary and Discussion; Chapter 5: Geminates |
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1. Previous Treatments of Geminate Inalterability2. Generalizations; 3. An Effort-Based Account of the Generalizations; 4. Heteromorphemic Geminates; 5. Summary and Alternative Approaches; Chapter 6: Effort-Based Contexts; 1. Aperture-Conditioned Lenition; 2. Speech Rate and Register; 3. Alternative Approaches; Chapter 7: Tümpisa Shoshone; 1. Data; 2. Analysis of Spirantization and Flapping; 3. Analysis of (De)voicing; 4. Analysis of Nasal Weakening; 5. Analysis of Laryngeal Elision; 6. Summary; Chapter 8: Florentine Italian; 1. Data; 2. Effort Values; 3. Analysis; 4. Conclusion |
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Chapter 9: Conclusion: Stabilization of Lenition Patterns1. The Stabilization Problem: Tigrinya Spirantization; 2. Selection of Phonetic Variants; 3. Effort under Canonical Conditions; 4. Remaining Questions; Appendix: Survey of Lenition Patterns; Notes; References; Index |
| Summary |
The first serious typological survey of the lenition process in modern phonological literature |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-290) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Consonants.
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Mutation (Phonetics)
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Phonology.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Phonetics & Phonology.
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Consonants
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Phonology
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Mutation (Phonetics)
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Alternation
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Grammatiktheorie
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Optimalitätstheorie
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Artikulation
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Lenierung
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Konsonant
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136710568 |
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1136710566 |
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9781315023731 |
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1315023733 |
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