Postvelar harmony / / Kimary N. Shahin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910822624803321
• Autore: Shahin Kimary N
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub., c2002
• ISBN: 1-283-31213-1; 9786613312136; 90-272-7532-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (352 p.)
• Collana: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, , 0304-0763 ; ; v. 225
• Disciplina: 414
• Soggetti: Grammar, Comparative and general - Phonology; Phonetics; Grammar, Comparative and general - Vowel harmony; Consonants; Vowels
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-303) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: POSTVELAR HARMONY; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Aknowledgements; Table of Contents; CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION; 1.1. Aims; 1.2. Overview; 1.3. Representational Assumptions; 1.3.1 Articulator Theory; 1.3.2 The Articulator Feature [TONGUE ROOT]; 1.3.3 Other Representational Assumptions; 1.4. Postvelars; 1.4.1 The Articulation of Gutturals; 1.4.2 The Articulation of Emphatics; 1.4.3 Postvelar Acoustics; 1.4.4 Summary; 1.5. A Harmony Typology; 1.6. Optimality Theory; 1.6.1 Correspondence Constraints; 1.6.2 Alignment Constraints; 1.6.3 Grounded Constraints; 1.7. Phonetics and Phonology; 1.7.1 The Distinction between Phonetics and Phonology1.7.2 The Use of Phonetics in Phonology; CHAPTER 2: POSTVELAR HARMONY IN PALESTINIAN ARABIC; 2.1. The Language and the Data; 2.2. Phonemic Inventory; 2.2.1 Consonantal Inventory; 2.2.2 Vocalic Inventory; 2.3. Preliminary Issues; 2.3.1 Underlying Pharyngealisation, Underlying Uvularisation; 2.3.2 The Derivation of the Palestinian Underlying Postvelar Inventory; 2.3.3 Prosodically Conditioned (Closed Syllable) Pharyngealisation; 2.4. Palestinian Pharyngealisation Harmony; 2.4.1 ; Harmony Under Adjacency to a Postvelar; 2.4.2 Theoretical Account: Part I2.4.3. Non-local Harmony; 2.4.4 Theoretical Account: Part II; 2.4.5 Opaque Stem-final Vowels and Long Vowels; 2.4.6 Theoretical Account: Part III; 2.5. Palestinian Uvularisation Harmony; 2.5.1 Harmony with an Emphatic; 2.5.2 Theoretical Account: Part I; 2.5.3 Opaque Post-alveolar Obstruents; 2.5.4 Theoretical Account: Part II; 2.5.5 Transparent Non-low Vowels; 2.5.6 Theoretical Account: Part III; 2.5.7 Uvularisation Harmony in Other Palestinian Dialects; 2.6. Summary and a Final Issue; CHAPTER 3: POSTVELAR HARMONY IN ST'ÁT'IMCETS SALISH; 3.1. The Language and the Data3.2. Phonemic Inventory; 3.2.1 Consonantal Inventory; 3.2.2 Vocalic Inventory; 3.3. Preliminary Issues; 3.3.1 Underlying Pharyngealisation, Underlying Uvularisation; 3.3.2 The Derivation of the St 'át'imcets Underlying Postvelar Inventory; 3.4. St'át'imcets Pharyngealisation Harmony; 3.4.1 Pharyngealisation under Adjacency to a Postvelar; 3.4.2 Theoretical Account; 3.5. St'át'imcets Uvularisation Harmony; 3.5.1 Harmony with an Emphatic; 3.5.2 Theoretical Account: Part I; 3.5.3 Neutral High Vowels; 3.5.4 Theoretical Account: Part II; 3.5.5 'Transparent' Laryngeals; 3.5.6 Theoretical Account: Part III3.6. Summary; CHAPTER 4: CONCLUSION; 4.1. Summary; 4.2. A Residual Issue; References; Appendix I. Abbreviations; Appendix II: Palestinian Carrier Forms For Vowel Tokens; Appendix III: Salish Language Classification; Appendix IV: St'át'imcets Carrier Forms For Vowel Tokens; Appendix V: St'át'imcets Word List; Name Index; Other Language/Language Family Index; Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book examines the formal bases of postvelar harmony and its crosslinguistic variation. It is of interest especially to phonologists concerned with segmental harmony and its explanation within Optimality Theory. Postvelar harmony in two unrelated languages, Palestinian Arabic and St'át'imcets Salish, is examined in detail. The result is the first comprehensive clarification of postvelar phonology for either language. Two harmonies are distinguished: uvularisation harmony ('emphasis spread') and pharyngealisation (tongue-root-retraction) harmony. The distinction between these two in th