Rachel Walker

Nasalization, Neutral Segments and Opacity Effects (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores cross linguistic variation in nasalization.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 374
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135718978
• Artikelnr.: 40436608

Autorenporträt

Rachel Walker

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
1.Introduction
Overview
Neutral Segments and Representations
Optimality Theory
Organization of the Dissertation
2.A Cross-linguistic Typology of Nasal Harmony Hierarchical Variation in Nasal Harmony
Analysis of the Typology
The Status of 'Transparent Glottals
Interaction of the Hierarchy with Multiple Constraints
Appendix: The Nasal Harmony Database
3. Segmental Transparency as an Opacity Effect
Antagonistic Transparency
Opacity in Tiberian Hebrew
Tuyuca
Some Points of Comparison between Harmonic and Contraint-based Sympathy
Finnish
An Evaluation Metric for Opacity
Appendix: German and Harmonic Sympathy Revisited
4. A Phonetic Study of Guarani
Nasal Harmony in Guarani
Set-up
Results
Discussion
Two-burst Events
Appendix: Word Pairs
5. Other Proposals A Gapping Alternative
The Variable Dependency Hypothesis
Other Approaches to Segmental Transparency
6. Other Phenomena: Reduplication and Cooccurrence Restrictions
Reduplication in Mbe
Coocurrence Effects in Bantu
Bibliography
Index.