This book explores cross linguistic variation in nasalization.
This book explores cross linguistic variation in nasalization. Booknews This book presents a survey of nasal harmony patterns, demonstrating the way that nasalization spreads in a predictable way across certain sequences of adjacent sounds in a word. Ultimately, Walker, a recent PhD graduate from University of California, Santa Cruz, offers a unified theory of cross- linguistic variation in nasal harmony. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
PrefaceAcknowledgments1Introduction32A Cross-linguistic Typology of Nasal Harmony233Segmental Transparency as an Opacity Effect974A Phonetic Study of Guarani2075Other Proposals2476Other Phenomena: Reduplication and Cooccurrence Restrictions261Bibliography319Index347
\ BooknewsThis book presents a survey of nasal harmony patterns, demonstrating the way that nasalization spreads in a predictable way across certain sequences of adjacent sounds in a word. Ultimately, Walker, a recent PhD graduate from University of California, Santa Cruz, offers a unified theory of cross- linguistic variation in nasal harmony. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \