| A Unified Approach to Nasality and Voicing Contributor(s): Nasukawa, Kuniya (Author) |
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ISBN: 3110184818 ISBN-13: 9783110184815 Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton OUR PRICE: $172.90 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2005 Annotation: This book makes an important contribution to the expanding body of work in generative phonology which aims to reduce the number of traditionally recognized melodic categories in order to achieve a greater degree of restrictiveness. By analyzing data from a large number of different languages, Nasukawa establishes a clear affinity between nasality and voicing, and demonstrates the advantages of treating these two properties as different phonetic manifestations of a single nasal-voice category. The choice of whether to interpret this category as voicing or nasality is determined by the active or inactive status of a complement tier. This study deepens our understanding of the typological relation between nasality and voicing, and sheds new light on a number of related agreement phenomena. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Phonetics & Phonology |
| Dewey: 414.8 |
| LCCN: 2005008473 |
| Series: Studies in Generative Grammar [Sgg] |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.03 lbs) 205 pages |
