Consonant Clusters and Structural Complexity
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There is currently a wealth of activity involving the analysis of complex segmental sequences from phonetic, phonological and psycholinguistic perspectives. This volume draws from selected contributions to the conference Consonant Clusters and Structural Complexity held in Munich in August 2008. Consonant sequences, whether occurring within individual lexical items or emerging in running speech at word boundaries, give particularly striking evidence for the temporal complexity of human speech. But contributions also consider the integration of tonal and vocalic elements into syllable structure. The main aim of the volume is to do justice to this complexity by bringing together researchers from a wide range of backgrounds.
The book is organized into four main sections entitled 'Phonology and Typology', 'Production: Analysis and Models', 'Acquisition', and 'Assimilation and reduction in connected speech'.
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2 - Part I. Phonology and Typology [Seite 15]
2.1 - Structural complexity of consonant clusters: A phonologist's view [Seite 17]
2.2 - On the relations between [sonorant] and [voice] [Seite 39]
2.3 - Limited consonant clusters in OV languages [Seite 77]
2.4 - Manner, place and voice interactions in Greek cluster phonotactics [Seite 99]
2.5 - Consonant clusters in four Samoyedic languages [Seite 125]
3 - Part II. Production: analysis and models [Seite 161]
3.1 - Articulatory coordination and the syllabification of word initial consonant clusters in Italian [Seite 163]
3.2 - A gestural model of the temporal organization of vowel clusters in Romanian [Seite 183]
3.3 - Coupling of tone and constriction gestures in pitch accents [Seite 211]
3.4 - Tonogenesis in Lhasa Tibetan - Towards a gestural account [Seite 237]
4 - Part III. Acquisition [Seite 261]
4.1 - Probabilistic phonotactics in lexical acquisition: The role of syllable complexity [Seite 263]
4.2 - Acquiring and avoiding phonological complexity in SLI vs. typical development of French: The case of consonant clusters [Seite 291]
4.3 - Part IV. Assimilation and reduction in connected speech [Seite 315]
4.4 - Articulatory reduction and assimilation in n#g sequences in complex words in German [Seite 317]
4.5 - Overlap-Driven Consequences of Nasal Place Assimilation [Seite 351]
4.6 - The acoustics of high-vowel loss in Northern Greek dialects and typological implications [Seite 375]
5 - List of contributors [Seite 405]
6 - Subject index [Seite 407]
7 - Language index [Seite 413]
