Distinctive Feature Theory
Description
This volume consists of nine articles dealing with topics in distinctive feature theory in various typologically diverse languages, including Acehnese, Afrikaans, Basque, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Navajo, Portuguese, Tahltan, Terena, Tswana, Tuvan, and Zoque. The subjects dealt with in the book include feature geometry, underspecification (in rule-based and in Opti-mality Theoretic treatments) and the phonetic implementation of phonological features. Other topics include laryngeal features (e.g. [voice], [spread glottis], [nasal]), and place features for consonants and vowels. The volume will be of interest to all linguists and advanced students of linguistics working on feature theory and/or the phonetics-phonology interface.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Introduction: Phonological representations and phonetic implementation of distinctive features
- Laryngeal dimensions, completion and enhancement
- Representational economy in constraint-based phonology
- Place of articulation first
- Representing nasality in consonants
- Patterns, pervasive patterns and feature specification
- Phonetic implementation of the distinctive auditory features [voice] and [tense] in stop consonants
- Distinctive [voice] implies regressive voicing assimilation
- The phonology of /r/
- Index of languages
- Index of subjects
