Download PDF by Kuniya Nasukawa,Phillip Backley: Strength Relations in Phonology (Studies in Generative

By Kuniya Nasukawa,Phillip Backley

ISBN-10: 3110218585

ISBN-13: 9783110218589

This selection of papers specializes in the final topic of phonological energy, bringing jointly present paintings being undertaken in numerous top theoretical frameworks. Its target is to teach how referring on to power family members can facilitate rationalization in numerous elements of the phonological grammar.

The papers introduce illuminating info from a variety of languages together with English, Dutch, German, Greek, eastern, Bambara, Yuhup, Nivkh, Sesotho and different Bantu platforms, demonstrating how energy ameliorations are valuable to the research of phonological patterning not just in well-documented circumstances of segmental asymmetry but additionally in different parts of description together with language acquisition, pitch accessory styles and tonal phenomena. the entire individuals agree at the desire for a phonological (as against a phonetic) method of the query of power adjustments, and express how a strength-based research could continue in quite a few theoretical versions together with Dependency Phonology, govt Phonology, Strict CV Phonology and Optimality concept.

Many of the papers advance a structural account in their information, during which energy kinfolk are understood to mirror uneven licensing kin protecting among devices in representations. the quantity presents a photo of present considering at the query of energy in phonology. the diversity of language facts and theoretical contexts it explores supply a transparent indication that phonological power acts as a standard thread to unite a number it seems that unrelated styles and processes.

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