: Kuniya Nasukawa, Phillip Backley
: Strength Relations in Phonology
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9783110218596
: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]ISSN
: 1
: CHF 160.50
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: Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
: English
: 408
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This collection of papers explores the theme of phonological strength. The general notion of strength plays a central role in explaining a variety of apparently disparate phonological effects relating to language acquisition, tone and pitch accent patterns, as well as segmental distribution. The authors analyze data from a wide range of languages and from a number of current theoretical perspectives.



Kuniya Nasukawa, Tohoku Gakuin University, Japan;Phillip Backley, University College London, UK.
Frontmatter1
Contents5
Contributors7
Introduction9
Why final obstruent devoicing is weakening17
Headship as melodic strength55
Transparency in nasal harmony and the limits of reductionism87
Developmental shifts in phonological strength relations121
Strength relations and first language acquisition157
Modelling initial weakenings191
Against rhymal adjuncts: the syllabic affiliation of English postvocalic consonants229
Defining initial strength in clusterless languages in Strict CV259
Strength relations between consonants: a syllable-basedOT approach293
The phonological structure of the Limburg tonal accents325
Projection of licensing potency from a phonological expression381