MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 02993cam a22002894a 4500
001 2001048322
003 DLC
005 20060807205909.0
008 010813s2001 nyua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2001048322
020 $a0415937434 (alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aP235$b.K57 2001
082 00 $a414$221
100 1 $aKirchner, Robert Martin,$d1961-
245 13 $aAn effort based approach to consonant lenition /$cRobert Kirchner.
260 $aNew York :$bRoutledge,$c2001.
300 $axvi, 303 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aOutstanding dissertations in linguistics
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 259-290) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1. Overview of the Survey -- 2. Previous Approaches -- 3. An Effort-Based Approach to Lenition -- 4. Structure of the Dissertation -- Chapter 2: Articulatory Effort -- 1. The Neuromuscular Basis of Effort -- 2. A Biomechanical Approach to Effort -- 3. Precision -- 4. Effort Minimization and Voicing Lenition -- 5. Summary -- Chapter 3: Representational Issues -- 1. Smolensky's Challenge to the Standard Model -- 2. A Definition of Contrastiveness -- 3. Faithfulness -- 4. A Language-Specific Predictable Property: Aspiration -- in English -- 5. Universally Non-Contrastive Properties: Vowel -- Duration -- 6. Generalizing the Result: the Contrastiveness Theorem -- 7. Categorical Effects with Continuous Representations -- 8. Lenition or Fortition with Indeterminate UR's -- 9. Summary -- Chapter 4: Spirantization and Stridency -- 1. Documenting the Generalization -- 2. An Effort-Based Explanation -- 3. Formal Capture of the Phonetic Explanation -- 4. Lenition of Affricates -- 5. Analysis of Assibilation -- 6. Summary and Discussion -- Chapter 5: Geminates -- 1. Previous Treatments of Geminate Inalterability -- 2. Generalizations -- 3. An Effort-Based Account of the Generalizations -- 4. Heteromorphemic Geminates -- 5. Summary and Alternative Approaches -- Chapter 6: Effort-Based Contexts -- 1. Aperture-Conditioned Lenition -- 2. Speech Rate and Register -- 3. Alternative Approaches -- Chapter 7: Tumpisa Shoshone -- 1. Data -- 2. Analysis of Spirantization and Flapping -- 3. Analysis of(De)voicing -- 4. Analysis of Nasal Weakening -- 5. Analysis of Laryngeal Elision -- 6. Summary -- Chapter 8: Florentine Italian -- 1. Data -- 2. Effort Values -- 3. Analysis -- 4. Conclusion -- Chapter 9: Conclusion: Stabilization of Lenition Patterns -- 1. The Stabilization Problem: Tigrinya Spirantization -- 2. Selection of Phonetic Variants -- 3. Effort under Canonical Conditions -- 4. Remaining Questions.
650 0 $aConsonants.
650 0 $aMutation (Phonetics)
650 0 $aGrammar, Comparative and general$xPhonology.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy032/2001048322.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0651/2001048322-d.html