Markedness : reduction and preservation in phonology /
Presents a groundbreaking new theory of markedness in phonology, the tendency of languages to show a preference for particular structures or sounds. Drawing on examples from a wide range of phonological phenomena, de Lacy argues that markedness is part of our linguistic competence, determined by con...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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Colección: | Cambridge studies in linguistics ;
112. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Symbols and abbreviations; 1 What is markedness?; 2 Theory; 3 Markedness reduction; 4 Preservation of the Marked; 5 Conflation in reduction; 6 Markedness conflation in preservation; 7 Markedness conflict: vowels; 8 Predictions and alternatives; 9 Conclusions; References; Subject index; Language index.