Parker The Sonority Controversy

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-3-11-026152-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 18, 503 Seiten

Reihe: Phonology and Phonetics [PP]

Autoren/Hrsg.

Parker, Steve

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Phonetik, Phonologie, Prosodie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;List of contributors;9
2;Introduction;11
3;Part 1: Sonority and Phonotactics;17
3.1;Sonority and sonority-based relationships within American English monosyllabic words;19
3.2;The role of sonority in the phonology of Latin;55
3.3;Is the Sonority Sequencing Principle an epiphenomenon?;81
3.4;Sonority distance vs. sonority dispersion - a typological survey;117
3.5;Sonority variation in Stochastic Optimality Theory: Implications for markedness hierarchies;183
3.6;Sonority intuitions are provided by the lexicon;211
4;Part 2: Sonority and Phonetics;233
4.1;Sonority and central vowels: A cross-linguistic phonetic study;235
4.2;Sonority and the larynx;273
4.3;Articulatory bases of sonority in English liquids;305
5;Part 3: Sonority and Language Acquisition;333
5.1;The Sonority Dispersion Principle in the acquisition of Hebrew word final codas;335
6;Part 4: Sonority and Sign Language;361
6.1;Acceleration peaks and sonority in Finnish Sign Language syllables;363
7;Part 5: Sonority and Computational Modeling;399
7.1;Sonority and syllabification in a connectionist network: An analysis of BrbrNet;401
8;References;427
9;Author index;489
10;Index of languages, dialects, and linguistic families;497
11;Subject index;501

Über Autor(innen)

Steve Parker is Assistant Professor at the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics in Dallas, Texas.