36.1734, Books: Rarities in phonetics and phonology: Kuznetsova, Anderson, and Easterday (eds.) (2025)

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Date: 03-Jun-2025
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [sebastian.nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: Rarities in phonetics and phonology: Kuznetsova, Anderson, and Easterday (eds.) (2025)


Title: Rarities in phonetics and phonology
Subtitle: Structural, typological, evolutionary, and social dimensions
Series Title: Topics in Phonological Diversity
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Language Science Press
           http://langsci-press.org
Book URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/415

Editor(s): Natalia Kuznetsova, Cormac Anderson, Shelece Easterday

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Abstract:

Rare phenomena play a key role in forming and challenging linguistic
theory. This volume presents multi-faceted analyses of rarities in
phonetics and phonology, from a wide variety of theoretical
standpoints. Some contributions to the volume analyse
language-specific rare features, placing them in a broader
cross-linguistic context and looking at a sum of their phonological,
phonetic, and evolutionary properties, at times also making
connections to sociolinguistic factors. Others consider the same (or
similar) phenomena from different analytical angles, with extensive
cross-referencing, or take a broad analytical or typological stance
towards rare phenomena and discuss what it means to be rare.
The volume provides a nuanced picture of phonetic and phonological
rarities in genealogically diverse languages, mostly lesser-studied,
from around the globe. Authors were encouraged to attempt to strike a
middle ground between radical exoticisation of the rarities at hand
(describing them in idiosyncratic terms) and radical normalisation
(underplaying the rarity of the phenomena at hand). Highly
theory-specific or technical terminology is avoided or explained
carefully, in order to make the book maximally accessible for a wide
typologically-minded audience.

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics
                     Phonology

Written In: English (eng)



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