ARABIC-L: Moderated Message

[Dilworth Parkinson]

I did post this announcement, on Nov 7th.  I must have copied it from 
LINGUIST or some other list.
Dil

On Thursday, November 14, 2002, at 11:20  AM, arabic-l at listserv.byu.edu 
wrote:

> Dear Prof. Parkinson,
> I am writing to inquire if you would be willing to post the following 
> book announcement to ARABIC-L at the request of the author.
>
> Thank you,
> Christopher Bell
>
> 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.
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Christopher Bell
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