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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796890203321

Autore

Recasens i Vives Daniel <1954->

Titolo

The production of consonant clusters : implications for phonology and sound change / / Daniel Recasens

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : Walter de Gruyter, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

3-11-056572-2

3-11-056805-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Phonology and phonetics ; ; volume 26

Disciplina

414

Soggetti

Consonants

Grammar, Comparative and general - Phonology

Phonetics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Production constraints and articulatory adaptation mechanisms -- 3. Homorganic clusters -- 4. Heterorganic articulators -- 5. Manner assimilation and weakening -- 6. Recapitulation and discussion -- References -- Index of languages and dialects

Sommario/riassunto

The book analyzes the articulatory motivation of several adaptation processes (place assimilations, blending, coarticulation) involving consecutive consonants in heterosyllabic consonant sequences within the framework of the degree of articulatory constraint model of coarticulation. It also shows that the homorganic relationship between two heterosyllabic consonants contributes to the implementation of manner assimilations, while heterorganicity as well as sonorancy and voicing in the syllable-onset C2 are key factors in the weakening of the syllable-coda C1. Experimental and descriptive evidence is provided with production, phonological and sound change data from several languages, and more especifically with tongue-to-palate contact and lingual configuration data for Catalan consonant sequences. The book also reviews critically research on the c-center effect in tautosyllabic consonant sequences which has been carried out during the last thirty



years.