Date: 13-Nov-2007 From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com> Subject: Voicing in Dutch: Weijer, Torre (Eds) E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Voicing in Dutch
Subtitle: (De)voicing - phonology, phonetics, and psycholinguistics
Series Title: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 286
Published: 2007
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Editor: Jeroen van de Weijer
Editor: Erik Jan van der Torre
Hardback: ISBN: 902724801X 9789027248015 Pages: 200 Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Hardback: ISBN: 902724801X 9789027248015 Pages: 200 Price: U.S. $ 142.00
Abstract:
This volume focuses on the phonology, phonetics and psycholinguistics of voicing-related phenomena in Dutch. Dutch phonology has played a touchstone role in the past few decades where competing phonological theories regarding laryngeal representation have been concerned. Debates have focused on the phonetic facts (Is final neutralization complete or incomplete? Are the assimilation rules phonetic or phonological?) and the most adequate phonological analyses (Is [voice] a binary feature? What constraints are necessary? What is the best way of implementing the role of morphology?). This volume summarises and adds fuel to these debates on several fronts, by providing an overview of analyses so far (rule-based as well as constraint-based) and proposing a new one, by drawing attention to new facts, such as exceptions to final devoicing in certain dialects and the behaviour of loanwords, and by re-examining the phonetic state of affairs and the behaviour of voiced, voiceless and partially devoiced segments in psycholinguistic experiments.
Linguistic Field(s):
Linguistic Theories
Phonetics
Phonology
Psycholinguistics