Effort Based Approach to Consonant Lenition

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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 A significant contribution to the current debate on the role of phonetic optimalisation, this book presents a formal and unified characterization of lenition patterns. 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