Effort Based Approach to Consonant Lenition

Informationen zum Autor Robert Kirchner earned his PHD from UCLA and is currently Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Alberta. Klappentext The first serious typological survey of the lenition process in modern phonological literature. Zusammenfassung The first serious typological survey of the lenition process in modern phonological literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Robert Kirchner
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.11.2016
• EAN: 9781138993389
• ISBN: 978-1-138-99338-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics