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Lenition and fortition /

The book is a collection of articles which aims at providing an overall treatment of the question of Lenition/Fortition in its many aspects: historical, typological, synchronic, diachronic, empirical and theoretical. Various current approaches to phonology are represented. The first part of the book...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Carvalho, Joaquim Brandão de, Scheer, Tobias, 1968-, Ségéral, Philippe, 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2008.
Colección:Studies in generative grammar ; 99.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter; Table of Contents; Introduction to the volume; Lenition, weaking and consonantal strenght: tracing concepts through the history of phonology; What and where?; Posotional factors in Lenition and Fortition; Metrical influences on fortition and lenition; Western Romance; Lenition in Tuscan Italian (Gorgia Toscana); Germanic prosody and consonantal strength; Slavonic; Celtic; Finnish Consonant Gradation; Nivkh; From Positions to Transitions: A Contour-Based Account of Lenition; Constant Clusters in Strong and Weak Positions; The Coda Mirror, stress and positional parameters.