Nasalization, Neutral Segments and Opacity Effects

by Rachel Walker

Overview

This book explores cross linguistic variation in nasalization.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138976726
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/21/2016
Series:	Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
Pages:	372
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Rachel Walker

Table of Contents

Preface; Acknowledgments;1.Introduction; Overview; Neutral Segments and Representations; Optimality Theory; Organization of the Dissertation; 2.A Cross-linguistic Typology of Nasal Harmony Hierarchical Variation in Nasal Harmony; Analysis of the Typology; The Status of 'Transparent Glottals; Interaction of the Hierarchy with Multiple Constraints; Appendix: The Nasal Harmony Database; 3. Segmental Transparency as an Opacity Effect; Antagonistic Transparency; Opacity in Tiberian Hebrew; Tuyuca; Some Points of Comparison between Harmonic and Contraint-based Sympathy; Finnish; An Evaluation Metric for Opacity; Appendix: German and Harmonic Sympathy Revisited; 4. A Phonetic Study of Guarani ; Nasal Harmony in Guarani; Set-up; Results; Discussion; Two-burst Events; Appendix: Word Pairs; 5. Other Proposals A Gapping Alternative; The Variable Dependency Hypothesis; Other Approaches to Segmental Transparency; 6. Other Phenomena: Reduplication and Cooccurrence Restrictions; Reduplication in Mbe; Coocurrence Effects in Bantu; Bibliography; Index.

Editorial Reviews

This book presents a survey of nasal harmony patterns, demonstrating the way that nasalization spreads in a predictable way across certain sequences of adjacent sounds in a word. Ultimately, Walker, a recent PhD graduate from University of California, Santa Cruz, offers a unified theory of cross- linguistic variation in nasal harmony. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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