Daniel Recasens

Phonetic Causes of Sound Change

The Palatalization and Assibilation of Obstruents

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an integrated account of the phonetic causes of the diachronic processes of palatalization, assibilation, and affrication. It draws on a variety of historical, dialectological, and phonetic data from a wide range of language families, including Romance, Bantu, Slavic, and Germanic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 1451g
• ISBN-13: 9780198845010
• ISBN-10: 0198845014
• Artikelnr.: 60037482

Autorenporträt

Daniel Recasens is Full Professor of Catalan Philology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Director of the Phonetics Laboratory at the Institut d'Estudis Catalans. His research interests include the interarticulatory mechanisms in speech production, the phonetic causes of sound change, and the phonetics-phonology interface. He is currently Associate Editor of Phonetica and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the International Phonetic Association, and has served as Chair of the 15th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (2003) and as Vice-President of the International Phonetic Association (2007-2011). His books include oarticulation and Sound Change in Romance (Benjamins, 2014) and The Production of Consonant Clusters (De Gruyter, 2018) and his work has appeared in journals such as Journal of Phonetics and Phonetica and in edited volumes from OUP, Benjamins, and De Gruyter.

Inhaltsangabe

Series preface
Preface
List of figures
List of abbreviations
1: Introduction
2: Velar softening
3: Velar palatalization
4: Velar assibilation
5: Labial softening
6: Conclusions
References
Index of language families, languages, and dialects
General index