| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 597 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Studies in generative grammar ; 99 |
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Studies in generative grammar ; 99.
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| Contents |
Frontmatter; Table of Contents; Introduction to the volume; Lenition, weaking and consonantal strenght: tracing concepts through the history of phonology; What and where?; Posotional factors in Lenition and Fortition; Metrical influences on fortition and lenition; Western Romance; Lenition in Tuscan Italian (Gorgia Toscana); Germanic prosody and consonantal strength; Slavonic; Celtic; Finnish Consonant Gradation; Nivkh; From Positions to Transitions: A Contour-Based Account of Lenition; Constant Clusters in Strong and Weak Positions; The Coda Mirror, stress and positional parameters |
| Summary |
The book is a collection of articles which aims at providing an overall treatment of the question of Lenition/Fortition in its many aspects: historical, typological, synchronic, diachronic, empirical and theoretical. Various current approaches to phonology are represented. The first part of the book is intended to provide stable and, if possible, pre-theoretical criteria that allow to characterize phenomena which count as Lenition/Fortition, and to work out the properties of the phenomena under study. The second part of the book deals with Lenition in selected language families. The third and |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Mutation (Phonetics)
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Phonetics & Phonology.
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Mutation (Phonetics)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Carvalho, Joaquim Brandão de.
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Scheer, Tobias, 1968-
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Ségéral, Philippe, 1954-
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| ISBN |
9783110211443 |
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3110211440 |
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1281999547 |
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9781281999542 |
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9786611999544 |
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661199954X |
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