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Easterday, Shelece

 
9781013294570: Highly Complex Syllable Structure
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ISBN 10: 1013294572 ISBN 13: 9781013294570
Editorial: Saint Philip Street Press, 2020

Sinopsis

The syllable is a natural unit of organization in spoken language whose strongest cross-linguistic patterns are often explained in terms of a universal preference for the CV structure. Syllable patterns involving long sequences of consonants are both typologically rare and theoretically marginalized, with few approaches treating these as natural or unproblematic structures. This book is an investigation of the properties of languages with highly complex syllable patterns. The two aims are (i) to establish whether these languages share other linguistic features in common such that they constitute a distinct linguistic type, and (ii) to identify possible diachronic paths and natural mechanisms by which these patterns come about in the history of a language. These issues are investigated in a diversified sample of 100 languages, 25 of which have highly complex syllable patterns.

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Editorial
Saint Philip Street Press
Año de publicación
2020
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1013294572
ISBN 13 
9781013294570
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Número de páginas
614
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