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This work elucidates the nature of the notion of Locality in phonology, describing the minimal conditions under which sounds assimilate to one another. The central thesis is that a sound can assimilate to another sound only if gestural contiguity is established between these two sounds. The argument supporting the central thesis of this book is unique in bringing evidence from articulatory... Read more
Preface Chapter 1: Introduction 1. Central Thesis 2. Theoretical Background 3. Organization of the Dissertation Chapter 2: Articulatory Locality 1. Introduction 2. Articulation of a VCV Sequence 3. Articulation of a CVC Sequence 4. Converging Sources of Evidence for Articulatory Locality 5. Previous Proposals on Locality 6. Autosegmental Spreading and Articulatory Locality 7. Summary and Conclusion
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Adamantios I. Gafos
