A Unified Approach to Nasality and Voicing
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Beschreibung
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.
Autor*in
Kuniya Nasukawa
Themen in »A Unified Approach to Nasality and Voicing«
Generative Grammatik Generative Phonologie Grammar, Comparative and general, Agreement Grammar, Comparative and general, Complement Grammar, Comparative and general, Voice Nasal Nasalität Nasalität Nasality Phonologie Stimmhaftigkeit