1st Edition

Nasalization, Neutral Segments and Opacity Effects

By Rachel Walker Copyright 2000
372 Pages
by Routledge

372 Pages
by Routledge

374 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores cross linguistic variation in nasalization.

Preface; Acknowledgments;1.Introduction; Overview; Neutral Segments and Representations; Optimality Theory; Organization of the Dissertation; 2.A Cross-linguistic Typology of Nasal Harmony Hierarchical Variation in Nasal Harmony; Analysis of the Typology; The Status of 'Transparent Glottals; Interaction of the Hierarchy with Multiple Constraints; Appendix: The Nasal Harmony Database; 3. Segmental Transparency as an Opacity Effect; Antagonistic Transparency; Opacity in Tiberian Hebrew; Tuyuca; Some Points of Comparison between Harmonic and Contraint-based Sympathy; Finnish; An Evaluation Metric for Opacity; Appendix: German and Harmonic Sympathy Revisited; 4. A Phonetic Study of Guarani ; Nasal Harmony in Guarani; Set-up; Results; Discussion; Two-burst Events; Appendix: Word Pairs; 5. Other Proposals A Gapping Alternative; The Variable Dependency Hypothesis; Other Approaches to Segmental Transparency; 6. Other Phenomena: Reduplication and Cooccurrence Restrictions; Reduplication in Mbe; Coocurrence Effects in Bantu; Bibliography; Index.

Biography

Rachel Walker