Complexity Scales and Licensing in Phonology

This book is an attempt to demonstrate that the basic principles of phonological organization boil down to the interaction between the strength of nuclei as licensers of phonological structure and various non-rerankable scales of complexity occurring at different levels of phonological representation. The licensing relation between nuclei and the preceding onsets on the one hand, and governing relations between consonants, which are to a great extent determined by their internal melodic structure, allow us to view the phonological representation as a self-organizing system, which is able to predict both the location and the type of phonological processes that may occur.

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Complexity Scales and Licensing in Phonology

This book is an attempt to demonstrate that the basic principles of phonological organization boil down to the interaction between the strength of nuclei as licensers of phonological structure and various non-rerankable scales of complexity occurring at different levels of phonological representation. The licensing relation between nuclei and the preceding onsets on the one hand, and governing relations between consonants, which are to a great extent determined by their internal melodic structure, allow us to view the phonological representation as a self-organizing system, which is able to predict both the location and the type of phonological processes that may occur.

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Complexity Scales and Licensing in Phonology

Complexity Scales and Licensing in Phonology

by Eugeniusz Cyran
Complexity Scales and Licensing in Phonology

Complexity Scales and Licensing in Phonology

by Eugeniusz Cyran

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This book is an attempt to demonstrate that the basic principles of phonological organization boil down to the interaction between the strength of nuclei as licensers of phonological structure and various non-rerankable scales of complexity occurring at different levels of phonological representation. The licensing relation between nuclei and the preceding onsets on the one hand, and governing relations between consonants, which are to a great extent determined by their internal melodic structure, allow us to view the phonological representation as a self-organizing system, which is able to predict both the location and the type of phonological processes that may occur.


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ISBN-13: 9783110221503
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Publication date: 03/26/2010
Series: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] Series
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 310
File size: 17 MB
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Eugeniusz Cyran, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland.

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