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Title Strength relations in phonology / edited by Kuniya Nasukawa, Phillip Backley.

Publication Info. Berlin ; New York : M. de Gruyter, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 400 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studies in generative grammar, 0167-4331 ; 103
Studies in generative grammar ; 103.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Summary 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 phonological grammar. The papers introduce illuminating data from a wide range of languages including English, Dutch, German, Greek, Japanese, Bambara, Yuhup, Nivkh, Sesotho and other Bantu systems, demonstrating how strength differences are central to the analysis of phonological patterning not only in we.
Contents Why final obstruent devoicing is weakening / John Harris -- Headship as melodic strength / Phillip Backley and Kuniya Nasukawa -- Transparency in nasal harmony and the limits of reductionism / Bert Botma -- Developmental shifts in phonological strength relations / Daniel A. Dinnsen and Ashley W. Farris-Trimble -- Strength relations and first language acquisition / Eirini Sanoudaki -- Modelling initial weakenings / Hidetoshi Shiraishi -- Against rhymal adjuncts : the syllabic affiliation of English postvocalic consonants / Colin J. Ewen and Bert Botma -- Defining initial strength in clusterless languages in strict CV / Nancy C. Kula and Lutz Marten -- Strength relations between consonants : a syllable-based OT approach / Karen Baertsch and Stuart Davis -- The phonological structure of the Limburg tonal accents / Ben Hermans -- Projection of licensing potency from a phonological expression / Yuko Yoshida.
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Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- Phonology.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Phonology.
Mutation (Phonetics)
Mutation (Phonetics)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Nasukawa, Kuniya, 1967-
Backley, Phillip.
Other Form: Print version: Strength relations in phonology. Berlin ; New York : M. de Gruyter, ©2009 9783110218589 (OCoLC)318971977
ISBN 9783110218596 (electronic book)
3110218593 (electronic book)
3110218585
9783110218589
9783110218589 (hardcover : alkaline paper)