New Publication

[natacha at ucla.edu]

Dear Colleagues:

I would like to announce the publication of my monograph ?Consonant  
Structure and Prevocalization?.

Book Title: Consonant Structure and Prevocalization
Author: Natalie Operstein
Publisher: John Benjamins
Date of publication: 2010

http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=CILT%20312

The monograph provides the first systematic synchronic and diachronic  
study of Consonant Prevocalization and proposes a new interpretation  
of the intrasegmental  structure of consonants. The proposed model  
makes strong predictions that are automatically relevant to  
phonological theory at both the diachronic and synchronic levels, and  
also to the phonetics of articulatory evolution. It also clearly  
demonstrates that a wide generalization of the notion of consonant  
prevocalization provides a uniform account for many well-known  
processes generally considered independent - from asynchronous  
palatalization in Polish to intrusive [r] in nonrhotic English, to  
vowel epentheses in Avestan, and to pre-/s/ vowel prothesis in Welsh  
and Western Romance. Consonant Prevocalization has not played a  
significant role in the development of modern phonological theory to  
date, and this work is the first to highlight its broad theoretical  
significance. It develops important theoretical insights, with a  
wealth of supporting data and a rich bibliography. The book will be of  
great interest to phonologists, phoneticians,
typologists, and historical linguists.

Sincerely,
Natalie Operstein

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