Consonant harmony : long-distance interaction in phonology

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Consonant harmony : long-distance interaction in phonology

Gunnar Ólafur Hansson

(University of California publications in linguistics, v. 145)

University of California Press, c2010

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A revised version of the author's doctoral dissertation (University of California, Berkeley, 2001)

Bibliography: p. [391]-416

Includes index

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This extensive survey of consonant harmony in the world's languages reveals surprising diversity in the featural dimensions involved, and uncovers new empirical generalizations and tendencies. Striking parallels with phonological speech errors suggest a connection to the psycholinguistic domain of speech planning. An Optimality Theory analysis of consonant harmony as long-distance featural agreement, rather than feature spreading, is developed in detail.

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