Nasalization, neutral segments, and opacity effects
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Nasalization, neutral segments, and opacity effects
(Outstanding dissertations in linguistics)
Garland, 2000
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Rev. of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of California, Santa Barbara, 1998)
Bibliography: p. 319-346
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book explores cross linguistic variation in nasalization.
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.
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