First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This volume proposes a unified weight theory that challenges traditionally held beliefs regarding the vowel/consonant dichotomy inherent in moraicity and illuminates many previously intractable issues.

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This new book offers research that will affect further study of tone in Vietnamese and other tonal languages.

Yael Greenberg discusses and clarifies a number of controversial issues and phenomena in the generic literature, including the existence of 'episodic genericity', existential presuppositions and contextual restrictions of generics.

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book is the first detailed investigation and description of phonotactic sound patterns affecting Khoesan click consonant inventories. It also includes the first quantitative study of phonation types in Khoesan languages, and the first study of phonation types associated with pharyngeal consonants all around. Although bases of OCP constraints have been presumed to be perceptual, this is the first quantitative study showing the acoustic basis of a particular OCP constraint in a specific language. Amanda L. Miller-Ockhuizen describes the phonetics and phonology of gutturals in the Khoesan...

Phonologically prominent or "strong" positions are well known for their ability to resist positional neutralization processes such as vowel reduction or place assimilation. However, there are also cases of neutralization that affect only strong positions, as when stressed syllables must be heavy, default stress is inserted into roots, or word-initial onsets must be low in sonority. In this book, Jennifer Smith shows that phonological processes specific to strong positions are distinct from those involved in classic positional neutralization effects because they always serve to augment the...

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.