LINGUIST List 12.1421

Wed May 23 2001

Books: Phonetics & Phonology

Editor for this issue: Naomi Ogasawara <naomilinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Sean Hanrahan, Phonetics & Phonology: Consonant Strength by Lisa Lavoie
2. Sean Hanrahan, Phonetics & Phonology: Patterns of Reduplication for Lushootseed

Lisa Lavoie, Harvard University, 
CONSONANT STRENGTH Phonological Patterns and Phonetic Manifestations

This book is a detailed examination of the phonetics and phonology of
consonant strength, drawing data from parallel acoustic and
articulatory studies of English and Spanish, as well as a
cross-linguistic survey of lenition and fortition. This book will be
of interest to scholars of phonology, phonetics, and the
phonetics-phonology interface. It includes a detailed discussion of
methodology, as well As illustrative spectrograms and
palatograms. Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics series.

Routledge January 2001 214 pp
HB 0 815 34044 3 $70.00 �45.00

Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Tables
List of Figures
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Survey of Consonant Strength Alternations
Chapter 3. Case Studies of American English and Mexican Spanish
Chapter 4. Results patterning by Manner of Articulation
Chapter 5. Discussion and Conclusions
Appendix A. English Durations
Appendix B Spanish Durations
Appendix C. Data Base Language References
Bibliography
Index

Suzanne Urbanczyk, University of Massachusetts, PATTERNS OF
REDUPLICATION FOR LUSHOOTSEED

This book examines three reduplicative morphemes in Lushootseed
(Central Salish) and argues that every aspect of their phonological
effect follows from being specified as either a root or an
affix. Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics series.

Routledge January 2001 225 pp
HB 0 815 34042 7 $70.00 �50.00

Preface
Introduction
Acknowledgments
1. Reduplication and Optimality Theory
2. Shape
3. Syllables, Stress, and Syncope
4. Default Segmentism
5. Double Reduplications and the Base
Appendix Lushootseed Reduplicated Stems
Bibliography
Index