Consonant Clusters and Structural Complexity

There is currently a wealth of activity involving the analysis of complex segmental sequences from phonetic, phonological and psycholinguistic perspectives. This volume draws from selected contributions to the conference Consonant Clusters and Structural Complexity held in Munich in August 2008. Consonant sequences, whether occurring within individual lexical items or emerging in running speech at word boundaries, give particularly striking evidence for the temporal complexity of human speech. But contributions also consider the integration of tonal and vocalic elements into syllable structure. The main aim of the volume is to do justice to this complexity by bringing together researchers from a wide range of backgrounds.
The book is organized into four main sections entitled 'Phonology and Typology', 'Production: Analysis and Models', 'Acquisition', and 'Assimilation and reduction in connected speech'.

Product details

• Assisted by: Lasse Bombien (Editor), Philip Hoole (Editor), Barbara Kühnert (Editor), Christine Mooshammer (Editor), Marianne Pouplier (Editor), Marianne Pouplier et al (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.09.2012
• EAN: 9781614510765
• ISBN: 978-1-61451-076-5
• No. of pages: 409
• Dimensions: 166 mm x 28 mm x 239 mm
• Weight: 740 g
• Series: Interface Explorations [IE]
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics