New PDF release: The Phonology of Consonants: Harmony, Dissimilation and

By Wm G. Bennett

ISBN-10: 1107073634

ISBN-13: 9781107073630

the main finished paintings on dissimilation (the avoidance or fix of mixtures of comparable sounds) to this point, this e-book proposes a singular research that handles dissimilation because the avoidance of floor correspondence relationships. It attracts on fresh paintings in contract by way of Correspondence to teach that dissimilation is a normal final result estimated via an identical idea of floor Correspondence. the speculation is constructed in additional aspect than ever ahead of, and its predictions are demonstrated and evaluated via ten in-depth analyses of various languages from Quechua to Kinyarwanda, including a typological survey of over one hundred sixty dissimilation styles drawn from over a hundred thirty languages, from Acehnese to Zulu. The ebook redefines the middle of floor Correspondence conception to a degree of formal specificity and theoretical precision surpassing earlier paintings. The book's findings are made extra obtainable by way of various examples that includes facts from forty seven languages from round the world.

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