A unified approach to nasality and voicing / by Kuniya Nasukawa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nasukawa, Kuniya, 1967- author.

Series:

Studies in generative grammar ; 65.

Studies in generative grammar ; 65

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nasality (Phonetics).

Grammar, Comparative and general--Voice.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Complement.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Agreement.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, [2005]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book makes an important contribution to the expanding body of work in generative phonology which aims to reduce the number of traditionally recognized melodic categories in order to achieve a greater degree of restrictiveness. By analyzing data from a large number of different languages, Nasukawa establishes a clear affinity between nasality and voicing, and demonstrates the advantages of treating these two properties as different phonetic manifestations of a single nasal-voice category. The choice of whether to interpret this category as voicing or nasality is determined by the active or inactive status of a complement tier; when active, this complement tier enhances the acoustic image of its head category and is interpreted as voicing. This study deepens our understanding of the typological relation between nasality and voicing, and sheds new light on a number of related agreement phenomena such as nasal harmony, postnasal voicing assimilation, voiced-obstruent voicing assimilation and spontaneous prenasalisation.

Contents:

Front matter

Abstract

Acknowledgements

Contents

Abbreviations and symbols

Chapter 1. Nasal-voice affinities

Chapter 2. Typological aspects of nasality and voicing

Chapter 3. The melodic architecture of nasality, voicing and prenasality

Chapter 4. An integrated approach to nasality and long-lead voicing

Chapter 5. Prenasalisation and nasalisation of voiced obstruents

Chapter 6. Assimilatory processes involving nasality and voicing

Chapter 7. Conclusion

Notes

References

Language index

Subject index

Author index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages [163]-177) and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110910490

3110910497

OCLC:

840442841