An Effort Based Approach to Consonant Lenition

ISBN-13: 9780415937436 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 320 str.

Robert Martin Kirchner

Opis

The first serious typological survey of the lenition process in modern phonological literature.

Spis treści

Preface Acknowledgments List of Figures List of Tables 1 Introduction 2 Articulatory Effort 3 Representational Issues 4 Spirantization and Stridency 5 Geminates 6 Effort-Based Contexts 7 Tümpisa Shoshone 8 Florentine Italian 9 Conclusion: Stabalization of Lenition Patterns appendix: Survey of Lenition Patterns Notes References Index

O autorze

Robert Kirchner earned his PHD from UCLA and is currently Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Alberta.