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The Synchronic and Diachronic Phonology of Ejectives.
This study is the first book-length examination of ejectives and their phonological patterning, deepening the empirical understanding of ejectives and contributing to both phonological theory and to typologies of sound change.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Colección: | Outstanding dissertations in linguistics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Abstract; Preface to the Routledge Edition; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 1.1. Overview; 1.2. What Are Ejectives?; 1.3. The Commonness of Ejectives; 1.4. Purpose; 1.4.1. Theoretical Questions; 1.4.2. Empirical Questions; 1.4.3. Historical Questions and the Glottalic Theory; 1.5. Methods; 1.6. Use of the IPA; 1.7. Overview of the Thesis; 2. Assimilation; 2.1. Introduction; 2.1.1. Requirements of a Theory of Features; 2.1.2. Predictions of Feature Geometry; 2.1.3. Scalar Features.
- 2.2. The Formalization of Assimilation as Spreading2.3. Cases of Laryngeal Independence: [voice] Spreads Without Ejection; 2.3.1. Waata Oromo; 2.3.2. Northwest Caucasian; 2.3.2.1. Kabardian; 2.3.2.2. Bzhedukh; 2.3.2.3. Abzakh; 2.3.3. Conclusion; 2.4. Complete Laryngeal Assimilation; 2.4.1. Oromo; 2.4.2. Northwest Caucasian; 2.4.3. Other Instances of Complete Laryngeal Assimilation; 2.4.4. Conclusion; 2.5. Theoretical and Empirical Problems of Complete Assimilation; 2.5.1. Laryngeal Node Spreading and the Sonority Constraint; 2.5.2. The Privativity of [voice] and Laryngeal Node Spreading.
- 2.5.3. Sonorant Transparency and Extraprosodic Consonants2.5.4. Kartvelian Language Data and Analysis; 2.5.4.1. Mingrelian; 2.5.2.2. Laz; 2.5.4.3. Analysis and Discussion; 2.5.5. Spreading of [c.g.] and its Phonetic Implementation; 2.6. Other Types of Glottal Spread; 2.6.1. Glottal Transfer in Kashaya; 2.6.2. Bella Coola and Quileute; 2.6.3. Sporadic Changes; 2.7. Place Assimilation with Laryngeal Preservation; 2.8. Complete Assimilation; 3. Deglottalization; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. Theoretical Discussion; 3.3. Deglottalization as Laryngeal Node Delinking; 3.3.1. Klamath; 3.3.2. Nisgha.
- 3.3.3. Sahaptin3.3.4. Maidu; 3.3.5. Other Cases of Delaryngealization; 3.3.6. Laryngeal Node Preservation; 3.4. Deglottaization as [c.g.] Delinking; 3.4.1. Tigre; 3.4.2. Lezgian; 3.4.3. Zayse; 3.4.4. Deglottalization with a Grammatical Role; 3.4.5. Ejective Preservation and Other Laryngeal Constraints; 3.5. Dialectal Variants; 3.5.1. Complete Loss of [c.g.]; 3.5.2. Other Cases of Deglottalization; 3.6. Free Variation and Loans; 3.7. Diachronic Data; 3.7.1. Languages of Africa; 3.7.2. Languages of the Americas; 3.7.3. Languages of the Caucasus; 3.8. Phonetic Realizations; 3.9. Conclusion.
- 4. Debuccalization4.1. Introduction; 4.1.1. Chapter Outline; 4.1.2. Background on Debuccalization; 4.2. Theoretical Considerations; 4.2.2. Formalizing Debuccalization; 4.2.1. Problems with Glottals; 4.2.3. Debuccalization in Constriction-Based Feature Geometry; 4.3. Individual Place Feature Delinking; 4.3.1. Irish; 4.3.2. Circassian; 4.3.2.1. Data; 4.3.2.2. The Problem of Uvulars; 4.3.2.3. Abdakh; 4.3.3. Yuman and Guddiri Hausa; 4.3.4. A Critique of Halle's Theory of Debuccalization; 4.3.5. Debuccalization with Loss of Secondary Articulation; 4.3.6. Summary; 4.4. Indeterminacy.