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Complexity in Polish Phonotactics - On Features, Weights, Rankings and Preferences (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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Complexity in Polish Phonotactics - On Features, Weights, Rankings and Preferences (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Series: Prosody, Phonology and Phonetics
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This book provides a refreshing perspective on the description,
study and representation of consonant clusters in Polish. What are
the sources of phonotactic complexity? What properties or
principles motivate the phonological structure of initial and final
consonant clusters? In answering these questions, a necessary
turning point consists in investigating sequences of consonants at
their most basic level, namely in terms of phonological features.
The analysis is exploratory: it leads to discovering prevalent
feature patterns in clusters from which new phonotactic
generalizations are derived. A recurring theme in the book is that
phonological features vary in weight depending on (1) their
distribution in a cluster, (2) their position in a word, and (3)
language domain. Positional feature weight reflects the relative
importance of place, manner and voice features (e.g. coronal,
dorsal, strident, continuant) in constructing cluster inventories,
minimizing cognitive effort, facilitating production and triggering
specific casual speech processes. Feature weights give rise to
previously unidentified positional preferences. Rankings of
features and preferences are a testing ground for principles of
sonority, contrast, clarity of perception and ease of articulation.
This volume addresses practitioners in the field seeking new
methods of phonotactic modelling and approaches to complexity, as
well as students interested in an overview of current research
directions in the study of consonant clusters. Sequences of
consonants in Polish are certainly among the most remarkable ones
that readers will ever encounter in their linguistic explorations.
In this volume, they will come to realise that hundreds of
unusually long, odd-looking, sonority-violating, morphologically
complex and infrequent clusters are in fact well-motivated and
structured according to well-defined tactic patterns of features.
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