16.4, Diss: Phonology: Szigetvari: 'VC Phonology...'

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Date: 03-Jan-2005
From: Peter Szigetvari < szigetva at seas3.elte.hu >
Subject: VC Phonology: A Theory of Consonant Lenition and Phonotactics 

	
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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 10:33:49
From: Peter Szigetvari < szigetva at seas3.elte.hu >
Subject: VC Phonology: A Theory of Consonant Lenition and Phonotactics 
 

Institution: Eötvös Loránd University 
Program: Department of English Linguistics 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 1999 

Author: Peter Szigetvari

Dissertation Title: VC Phonology: A Theory of Consonant Lenition and
Phonotactics 

Dissertation URL:  http://seas3.elte.hu/szigetva/papers.html#diss

Linguistic Field(s): Phonology


Dissertation Director(s):
Jean Lowenstamm
Miklos Torkenczy

Dissertation Abstract:

The dissertation proposes an amendment to strict CV phonology (Lowenstamm
1996), a theory that views the phonological skeleton as a string of strictly
alternating consonantal (C) and vocalic positions (V), beginning with a C and
ending in a V.  Chapter 1 argues for the usefulness and necessity of recognizing
empty skeletal positions.  Chapter 2 surveys current views of syllabic
constituency and some problems associated with them.  Two theories of
(consonant) lenition (Harris 1997 and Segeral & Scheer 1999) are introduced in
chapter 3, accompanied with some critical comments.  The next chapter offers
some extensions to the latter theory, proposing a novel definition of
phonological government and for the exact content of the C and V positions of
the skeleton.  The theory explicated in this chapter works best if the skeleton
begins with a V and ends in a C position, furthermore, there evolves evidence
that skeletal units are not CVs but VCs.  This is explicated in chapter 5.  The
next chapter contemplates on the status of consonant clusters that can occur
word-initially without offering a fully acceptable solution.  Chapter 7 shows
the theory at predicting both the location and the direction of consonant
lenition (towards more sonorousness or towards lack of place and/or laryngeal
properties).  The final chapter is a brief summary of what this theory calls for
in the field of melodic representation (the features/particles/elements that
encode phonetic properties for the place of articulation and laryngeal
characteristics).





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