1st Edition

An Effort Based Approach to Consonant Lenition

By Robert Kirchner Copyright 2001
    320 Pages
    by Routledge

    320 Pages
    by Routledge

    The first serious typological survey of the lenition process in modern phonological literature.

    Preface Acknowledgments List of Figures List of Tables 1 Introduction 2 Articulatory Effort 3 Representational Issues 4 Spirantization and Stridency 5 Geminates 6 Effort-Based Contexts 7 Tümpisa Shoshone 8 Florentine Italian 9 Conclusion: Stabalization of Lenition Patterns appendix: Survey of Lenition Patterns Notes References Index

    Biography

    Robert Kirchner earned his PHD from UCLA and is currently Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Alberta.