Reconciling Indo-European syllabification

Reconciling Indo-European syllabification

by Cooper, Adam I.

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Adam Cooper examines two seemingly disparate phenomena associated with Indo-European syllable structure - the heterosyllabic treatment of medial consonant clusters and the right-hand vocalization of sonorants - and integrates them into a single picture of the reconstructed system.

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  • Full title :Reconciling Indo-European syllabification / by Adam I. Cooper.

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Adam Cooper examines two seemingly disparate phenomena associated with Indo-European syllable structure - the heterosyllabic treatment of medial consonant clusters and the right-hand vocalization of sonorants - and integrates them into a single picture of the reconstructed system.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2015

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Place of Publication:Leiden, Netherlands
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2015

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9789004236905, 9004236902, 9789004281950, 9004281959
  • DOI:10.1163/9789004281950.
  • oclc:on1004389609
  • LC Classification:P591
  • Dewey Decimal:414

Table of Contents

Preface; Acknowledgments; Symbols; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction; 1.1 Overview of the Volume; 1.2 Structure of the Volume; 1.3 The Formal Framework; 1.3.1 Syllables, Moras, and Sonority; 1.3.2 Optimality Theory; 1.4 A Note about Transcription and *; PART 1 Consonant Heterosyllabicity in Indo-European; Chapter 2 The Syllabification of Medial Consonant Clusters in Vedic; 2.0 Introduction; 2.1 The Syllabification of VCCV Sequences; 2.1.1 Evidence for Tautosyllabification of Medial Consonants; 2.1.2 Evidence for Heterosyllabification of Medial Consonants.

2.2 The Syllabification of VCCCV Sequences2.2.1 Superheavy Syllables in Vedic; 2.2.2 VCCCV Sequences and the Strength of Sonority Sequencing; 2.2.3 On the Position of s; 2.2.4 Summary; 2.3 The Perfect Union Vowel: A Case of Exceptional Syllabification in Vedic; 2.3.1 Overview of the Phenomenon; 2.3.2 Previous Explanations for the Phenomenon; 2.3.3 Identifying the Synchronic Phenomenon; 2.3.4 The Perfect Union Vowel as a Deleted Segment?; 2.3.5 On the Locus of Perfect Union Vowel Epenthesis; 2.3.6 Summary; 2.4 Conclusion; Chapter 3 Formal Analysis of Vedic Medial Syllabification.

3.0 Introduction3.1 Vedic Medial Syllabificat…

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Subjects

Indo-European languages -- Phonology Indo-European languages -- Syllabificat…

Writers

Cooper, Adam I.

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