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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 16:02:20
From: Ulrich Lueders [lincom.europa at t-online.de]
Subject: Phonological strength relations and segmental speech sounds with reference to some Indian Languages: Dutta

 


Title: Phonological strength relations and segmental speech sounds with
reference to some Indian Languages 
Series Title: Linguistics Edition 109  

Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom-shop.eu
	

Book URL: https://goo.gl/AfZqXT 


Author: Hemanga Dutta

Paperback: ISBN:  9783862887262 Pages: 274 Price: Europe EURO 78.80


Abstract:

This study drives home the point that the notion of phonological strength is
instrumental in the phonological patterning of segmental asymmetry in addition
to the hierarchical representation of phonological features. Phonological
strength relation has been interpreted in this study from various perspectives
such as dependency phonology and government phonology, positional faithfulness
and licensing by cue model, constraint rankings within OT model etc.The
findings of this thesis with reference to the data drawn from Assamese and
Hindi can be subsumed under two headings: phonological and phonetic.
Positional asymmetry is not only phonologically patterned in a dynamic and
distributional way but also phonetically authenticated. In other words, the
onset coda asymmetry this study shows has some phonetic underpinnings too. In
this study various phonological processes are taken in to account in order to
deal with the issue of phonological strength. These processes include
assimilation, spirantization, consonant cluster, aspiration and gemination.
Prosodically stronger positions such as onsets and initial positions attest
the process of fortition such as aspiration which is subject to loss in weaker
positions. The process of lenition such as spirantization targets mostly the
prosodically weaker positions such as word final and coda position. Here I
have shown that whenever there are two adjacent segments of same sonority
value, mostly obstruents, coda segment assimilates to the following obstruent
in the onset position. But when the adjacent segments are of asymmetric
sonority value, that is, liquids or nasals on the onset position and
obstruents in the coda position, the former assimilates to the latter and
thereby violates the dictum of positional privilege. A more complex segment is
a better candidate to be assimilated whereas the less complex segment is
susceptible to alternation.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Phonology

Subject Language(s): Assamese (asm)
                     Hindi (hin)


Written In: English  (eng)

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