Phonological explorations : empirical, theoretical and diachronic issues /

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Imprint:Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2012]
Description:1 online resource (x, 355 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Linguistische Arbeiten ; 548
Linguistische Arbeiten (Max Niemeyer Verlag) ; 548.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11267593
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Other authors / contributors:Botma, Engbert Doede, 1972-
Noske, Roland.
ISBN:3110295172
9783110295177
9783110295160
9783110295177
3110295164
Digital file characteristics:text file PDF
Notes:Electronic version available.
Restrictions on access to electronic version: access available to SOAS staff and students only, using SOAS id and password.
Includes bibliographical references.
In English.
Summary:The field of phonology is becoming increasingly diverse. The 16 papers in this volume offer a representative slice of current phonological thinking, with contributions on such issues as tone, vowel harmony, learnability, the phonology-morphology interface and phonological change, from leading researchers in the field.
Other form:Print version: 9783110295160 3110295164
Standard no.:10.1515/9783110295177
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Notes on contributors
  • Introduction
  • Allomorphy and the architecture of grammar
  • From prof to provo: some observations on Dutch clippings
  • Recursion in phonology?
  • The Grimm-Verner push chain and Contrast Preservation Theory
  • Segmental structure and vowel shifts
  • The distribution of vowels in English and trochaic proper government
  • A propos of the Dutch vowel system 21 years on, 22 years on
  • A minimal framework for vowel harmony
  • Greater than noise: frequency effects in Bantu height harmony
  • The phonological representation of the Limburgian tonal accents
  • Quantity or durational enhancement of tone: the case of Maastricht Limburgian high vowels
  • Using local constraint conjunction to discover constraints: the case of Mandarin Chinese
  • Implications of Harmonic Serialism for lexical tone association
  • A constraint-based explanation of the McGurk effect
  • Liquids in a case of unfolding early L1 Dutch: from null realizations through free variation through probabilistically bound variation to lexical contrast
  • The Tibetan numerals segmentation problem and how virtual learners solve it.