The Articulatory Basis of Locality in Phonology

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Taylor & Francis, 1999 - 272 pàgines
This work elucidates the nature of the notion of Locality in phonology, describing the minimal conditions under which sounds assimilate to one another. The central thesis is that a sound can assimilate to another sound only if gestural contiguity is established between these two sounds. The argument supporting the central thesis of this book is unique in bringing evidence from articulatory dynamics, electromyography, and cross-linguistic sound patterns to converge on the same notion of locality in phonology. This book will be of particular interest to researchers in phonetics, phonology, and morphology, as well as to cognitive scientists interested in how the grammar may include constraints that emerge from the physical aspects of speech.
 

Continguts

Crosslinguistic Investigation of Consonant Harmony
9
Theoretical Background
10
Organization of the Dissertation
21
Articulation of a CVC Sequence
34
Previous Proposals on Locality
52
Autosegmental Spreading and Articulatory Locality
65
On the Proper Characterization of Nonconcatenative
73
Temiar in Previous Analyses
100
Summary and Conclusion
170
Introduction
175
Tahltan
184
Northern Athabaskan
190
Southern Athabaskan
200
Sanskrit
207
Australian Languages
214
Previous Analyses of Consonant Harmony
224

Typological Consequences
110
Summary and Conclusion
117
Notes
126
Articulatory Subdivisions of the Tongue and Palate
134
Proposal for a New Distinctive Feature
144
Summary and Conclusion
236
Bibliography
245
Index
263
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