Front Vowels, Coronal Consonants and Their Interaction in Nonlinear Phonology

by Elizabeth V. Hume

Overview

First published in 1994. This study aims to provide evidence for the natural class of sounds comprised of front vowels, front glides and coronal consonants.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138317376
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/06/2018
Series:	Routledge Library Editions: Phonetics and Phonology , #8
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Elizabeth Valerie Hume (born 29 October 1956) is a Professor of Linguistics at University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Hume received her Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1992 and was a Professor of Linguistics at the Ohio State University from 1992 to 2011. She is an associate editor of Phonology from 2008 to the present. Her fields of research are sound systems of human language, factors influencing language variation and change, and the role of information and predictability in shaping language systems.

Table of Contents

PART I, I. INTRODUCTION, 1. Purposes of this Work, 2. Background Assumptions, 3. Organization of this Study, II. PHONETIC CORRELATES OF [CORONAL], 0. Introduction, 1. Topology of the Tongue, 2. Articulatory Description of [Coronal], 3. The Coronality of Front Vowels, 4. Acoustic Properties of Coronal Sounds, 5. Summary, III. THE FEATURE SPECIFICATION OF CORONALS, 0. Introduction, 1. Front Vocoids, 2. Coronal Consonants, 3. Coronal Sonorant Consonants, 4. Summary, IV. THE NONLINEAR ORGANIZATION OF CONSONANT AND VOWEL FEATURES, 0. Introduction, 1. Incorporating [coronal] into a Nonlinear Model of Feature Organization, 2. Feature Theory, 3. Feature Organization, 4. Spreading Constraints, 5. Cooccurrence Constraints and Dissimilation, 6. Root Adjacency as a Necessary Condition on Consonant/Vowel Interaction?, 7. Resolving an Ordering Paradox, V. CONSONANT-TO-FRONT VOWEL ASSIMILATION, 0. Introduction, 1. Acadian French, 2. Front Vowels as [-back], 3. Cross-plane Interaction, 4. Palatalization, 5. Coronalization, 6. Summary, 7. [Continuant] and [Strident], 8. The Apparent Dorsality of Front Vowels, PART II, VI. MALTESE ARABIC: A CASE STUDY, 0. Introduction, 1. Preliminaries, 2. Laying out the Problems, 3. Typical Formation of the Imperfective, First Measure Triliteral Verb, 4. Underlying Vocalism of the Stem, 5. Plural Imperfectives: Description, 6. Metathesis, 7. The Realization of the Imperfective Prefix Vowel, 8. A Nonlinear Account of Metathesis, 9. Further Implications, VII. CORONAL VOWEL AND CONSONANTS PARALLELISMS IN MALTESE ARABIC, 0. Introduction, 1. The Realization of the Imperfective Prefix Vowel before Stem-initial Coronal Obstruents, 2. Consonant Coronal Assimilation, 3. Coronal Vowel/Consonant Parallelisms, 4. Conclusion, VIII. Conclusion, References, Index

Editorial Reviews

The author's Ph.D. dissertation (Cornell U., 1991), this work examines the interaction of front vowels and coronal consonants in a range of phonological processes cross-linguistically. Both phonological and phonetic evidence are provided in support of the view that these sounds constitute members of the same natural class, which is argued to be coronal. The second half of the work presents a case study of consonant/vowel interaction in Maltese. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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