Markedness

Informationen zum Autor Paul de Lacy is Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics! Rutgers University. Klappentext This book presents a theory of 'markedness', the way in which languages demonstrate bias towards particular sounds. Zusammenfassung This book presents a groundbreaking theory of markedness in phonology! the tendency of languages to show a preference for particular structures or sounds. Drawing on examples from a wide range of phonological phenomena! de Lacy argues that markedness is part of our linguistic competence! determined by conflicting mechanisms in the brain. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgements; Symbols and abbreviations; 1. What is markedness?; 2. Theory; 3. Markedness reduction; 4. Preservation of the marked; 5. Conflation in reduction; 6. Markedness conflation in preservation; 7. Markedness conflict: vowels; 8. Prediction and alternatives; 9. Conclusions; References; Subject index; Language index.

Product details

• Authors: Paul De Lacy, Paul De Lacy, De Lacy Paul
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9780521142236
• ISBN: 978-0-521-14223-6
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics; Cambridge Studies in Linguisti
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics