A Unified Approach to Nasality and Voicing (Studies in Generative Grammar)
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (537 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 3110184818 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 189 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-24 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
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 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. 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,
. About the AuthorKuniya Nasukawa is Associate Professor in Linguistics at the Tohoku Gakuin University, Sendai, Japan
. Kuniya Nasukawa is Associate Professor in Linguistics at the Tohoku Gakuin University, Sendai, Japan
Geraldo Faria said voicing of obstruents and nasality under one approach. The book is brilliantly written with an array of examples of contrastive data between Tohoku Japanese, Tokyo plain speech versus higher traditional Tokyo accents--as well as all sorts of languages from around the world. In this book, Prof. Nasukawa arguments for a unified approach of the voicing of stops and nasals in the construction of well-formed words (such as in rendaku of compounding and gerunds) in the Japanese language. The whole argument becomes quite daring once nasals are