Sonic signatures : studies dedicated to John Harris /

"Sonic Signatures is devoted to the representation of sound patterns and sound structures across a diverse range of typologically distinct languages with the overall aim of understanding the nature of linguistic data structures from a principled balance between representational economy and the...

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Other Authors: Lindsey, Geoff (Editor), Nevins, Andrew (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]
Series:Language faculty and beyond ; v. 14.
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Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of Contents:
  • Prelude, theme and riffs / Geoff Lindsey and Andrew Nevins
  • English /au/: An acoustic explanation for a phonological pattern / Phillip Backley
  • The internal tr clusters of Acadian French: a hint from schwa / Monik Charette
  • Hocus bogus? licensing paths and voicing in Polish / Eugeniusz Cyran
  • A unifying explanation of the great vowel shift, Canadian raising and Southern monophthonging / Carlos Gussenhoven
  • Deconstructing tongue root harmony systems / Harry van der Hulst
  • Underlying representations and Bantu segmental phonology / Hyman Larry M
  • Uniqueness in element signatures / Kula Nancy C
  • Charting the vowel space / Geoff Lindsey
  • The relative salience of consonant nasality and true obstruent voicing / Nasukawa Kuniya
  • Asymmetric variation / Péter Rebrus, Péter Szigetvári and Miklós Törkenczy
  • The beginning of the word: child language data / Eirini Sanoudaki
  • On the diachronic origin of nivkh height restrictions / Hidetoshi Shiraishi and Bert Botma
  • Segmental loss and phonological representation / Thaïs Cristófaro Silva, Maria Cantoni, Nívia Oliveira and Izabel Miranda
  • The phonology of handshape distribution in maxakalí sign / Diane Stoianov and Andrew Nevins
  • English stress is binary and lexical / Péter Szigetvári
  • Bogus clusters and lenition in Tuscan Italian: implications for the theory of sonority / Shanti Ulfsbjorninn
  • The prosodic status of glides in Anaañ reduplication / Eno-Abasi Urua and Ememobong Udoh.