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Nasukawa Kuniya <1967-> |
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A unified approach to nasality and voicing / / by Kuniya Nasukawa |
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Berlin ; ; New York : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , [2005] |
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©2005 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (205 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Studies in generative grammar ; ; 65 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Nasality (Phonetics) |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Voice |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Complement |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Agreement |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [163]-177) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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