The typology and modelling of obstruent lenition and fortition processes /
"The author of this volume attempts to establish a link between the notions of lenition and fortition on the one hand, and the implicational hierarchy of obstruents on the other, through the property of sonority. Earlier theories of lenition and fortition are critically assessed and the typolog...
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Budapest :
Akadémiai Kiadó,
©2003.
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| Series: | Phonology (Budapest, Hungary)
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Treatments of lenition and fortition in historical linguistics
- 2. Sonority
- 3. The typology of consonant systems
- 4. Sonority changes in the non-Germanic languages
- 5. A survey of the history of the Germanic obstruent system(s)
- 6. Phonological interpretation
- 7. General summary
