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Date:  07 Nov 2002
From: Christopher Bell <promotion at benjamins.com>
Subject:New Book on Postvelar Harmony in Arabic

John Benjamins Publishing Company is pleased to announce the  
publication of the following new title:

Title: Postvelar Harmony
Series Title: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 225

Publication Date: Winter 2002-2003
Publisher: John Benjamins
            http://www.benjamins.com/
            http://www.benjamins.nl

Author: Kimary Shahin, University of British Columbia

United States and Canada: Hardcover: 1 58811 221 7, USD 99.00
Rest of World: Hardcover: 90 272 4733 1, EUR 99.00
xii. 344 pp.

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 the Arabic and the Salish  
is supported by much instrumental phonetics data. The complex harmony  
properties are explained as the result of systematic interaction  
between Correspondence, Alignment and Grounded constraints. In the  
course of the investigation, the segmental inventories of both  
languages are clarified, and a careful understanding of the distinction  
between phonology and phonetics, and the use of phonetics in phonology,  
is applied.

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