Highly complex syllable structure: A typological and diachronic study (Studies in Laboratory Phonology) - Hardcover

Easterday, Shelece

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3961101957 ISBN 13: 9783961101955

Verlag: Freie Universität Berlin Universitätsbibliothek, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

The syllable is a natural unit of organization in spoken language whose strongest cross-linguistic patterns are often explained in terms of a universal preference for the CV structure. Syllable patterns involving long sequences of consonants are both typologically rare and theoretically marginalized, with few approaches treating these as natural or unproblematic structures. This book is an investigation of the properties of languages with highly complex syllable patterns. The two aims are (i) to establish whether these languages share other linguistic features in common such that they constitute a distinct linguistic type, and (ii) to identify possible diachronic paths and natural mechanisms by which these patterns come about in the history of a language. These issues are investigated in a diversified sample of 100 languages, 25 of which have highly complex syllable patterns.

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Shelece Easterday is a postdoctoral researcher at Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage (CNRS & Université Lyon 2; Lyon, France). In 2017, she received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, USA). Her main research interests are phonological typology, language change, and phonological phenomena which are complex and/or crosslinguistically rare. She investigates these topics in languages from regions and families which are traditionally underrepresented in linguistic research.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Freie Universität Berlin Universitätsbibliothek
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3961101957
• ISBN 13: 9783961101955
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 596
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