Consonant Harmony - Long-Distance Interactions in Phonology

Informationen zum Autor Gunnar Ólafur Hansson is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of British Columbia! Canada. He specializes in phonology! the study of sound patterns in natural languages and of language users' implicit knowledge of such patterns. Klappentext A survey of consonant harmony in the world's languages. It reveals surprising diversity in the featural dimensions involved! and uncovers empirical generalizations and tendencies. It develops an Optimality Theory analysis of consonant harmony as long-distance featural agreement! rather than feature spreading. Zusammenfassung A survey of consonant harmony in the world's languages. It reveals surprising diversity in the featural dimensions involved, and uncovers empirical generalizations and tendencies. It develops an Optimality Theory analysis of consonant harmony as long-distance featural agreement, rather than feature spreading.

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• Authors: Gunnar Olafur Hansson, Hansson Gunnar Olafur
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2010
• EAN: 9780520098787
• ISBN: 978-0-520-09878-7
• No. of pages: 440
• Series: University of California Publi; UC Publications in Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Phonetics, phonology