| Preface | 5 |
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| Chapter 1: Preliminaries | 11 |
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| 1 Introduction | 11 |
| 2 The basic Polish voicing facts | 11 |
| 3 Representing voice | 15 |
| 4 Laryngeal Realism | 18 |
| 5 Laryngeal Realism and Polish voicing | 21 |
| 6 The problem of Cracow-Poznan | 21 |
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| Chapter 2: Sound system, phonology and phonetics | 31 |
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| 1 Introduction | 31 |
| 2 Types of voicing | 32 |
| 2.1 Spontaneous voicing | 32 |
| 2.2 Active voicing | 35 |
| 2.3 Passive voicing | 36 |
| 3 Sound system | 39 |
| 3.1 Phonological aspects | 40 |
| 3.2 Phonetic categories | 42 |
| 3.3 Phonetic interpretation | 44 |
| 4 Laryngeal Relativism | 47 |
| 5 Some consequences of Laryngeal Relativism | 50 |
| Chapter 3: Cracow-Poznan | 50 |
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| 53 | 50 |
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| 1 Introduction | 53 |
| 2 Laryngeal Relativism and Polish voicing | 54 |
| 2.1 Final Obstruent Devoicing | 57 |
| 2.2 Regressive Voice Assimilation | 62 |
| 3 Cracow-Poznan | 62 |
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| 3.1 Bethin (1984, 1992) | 69 |
| 3.2 Gussmann (1992) | 74 |
| 3.3 Rubach (1996) | 76 |
| 3.4 CP sandhi voicing and Laryngeal Relativism | 78 |
| 3.5 Laryngeal Relativism and Licensing-by-Cue | 83 |
| 4 Conclusions | 86 |
| Chapter 4: Progressive voice assimilation in Polish | 89 |
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| 1 Introduction | 89 |
| 1.1 Benni’s generalization | 93 |
| 1.2 Is PVA dead or alive? | 96 |
| 1.3 A functional explanation of progressive devoicing | 99 |
| 2 Modern derivational and non-derivational accounts of PVA | 100 |
| 2.1 Preliminaries | 100 |
| 2.2 Gussmann (1992) | 103 |
| 2.3 Bethin (1992) | 109 |
| 2.4 Rubach (1996) | 113 |
| 2.5 Gussmann (2007) | 117 |
| 3 PVA and Laryngeal Relativism | 123 |
| 3.1 Preliminaries | 123 |
| 3.2 Laryngeal Relativism | 123 |
| 3.3 Obstruentization and PVA | 128 |
| 3.4 The ‘voiced obstruent’ hypothesis in CP and WP | 134 |
| 3.5 The new (old) analysis of PVA | 137 |
| 3.6 Post-alveolar fricatives in PVA context | 142 |
| 4 Conclusions | 148 |
| Chapter 5: Further issues | 151 |
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| 1 Introduction | 151 |
| 2 Laryngeal licensing – elements in phonological contexts | 152 |
| 3 Prepositions and voicing | 169 |
| 4 The behaviour of sonorant consonants | 176 |
| 4.1 ...C# vs. ...CS# | 178 |
| 4.2 ...CS#C vs. ...C#SC | 187 |
| 5 Phonology and phonetics in Laryngeal Relativism | 203 |
| 5.1 Substance-free elements? | 208 |
| 6 Laryngeal Relativism and other languages | 211 |
| 6.1 Durham English | 211 |
| 6.2 Dutch | 215 |
| 7 Conclusions | 210 |
| Conclusion | 223 |
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| References | 227 |
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| Subject index | 239 |
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| Index of Polish words | 241 |