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Author(s): Tobias Scheer
ISBN(s): 9783110908336, 3110908336
Edition: Reprint 2012
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Year: 2004
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 3110908336 
ISBN 13: 9783110908336
Author: Tobias Scheer

This book presents a development of Jean Lowenstamm’s idea that phonological constituent structure can be reduced to a strict sequence of non-branching Onsets and non-branching Nuclei. The approach at hand is known as ‘CVCV’, and emerged from Government Phonology. Since its very beginnings in the early 80s, the central claim of this theory has been that syllable-based generalisations are due to lateral relations among constituents, rather than to the familiar arboreal structure. This book shows that Standard Government Phonology did not go far enough in implementing this idea. CVCV completes the missing steps: structure and causality are fully lateralised. Detailed discussion is offered how basic phonological objects and processes such as Codas, closed syllables, long vowels, geminates, syllabic consonants, vowel-zero alternations, closed syllable shortening, compensatory lengthening, lenition and the like can be represented within the CVCV frame. The first part of the book is called “What is CVCV ?”. It presents the properties of the theory. The second part focuses on the reasons why it is worthwhile considering CVCV a valuable and viable approach. The primary goal of the book is not to engage the dialogue with other phonological theories. Rather, it aims at establishing a player in the general game: defining the properties of a theory is always prior to its comparison with other models. In the current OT-dominated phonological scene, then, CVCV appears as a true theory of the 80s insofar as it is representational at core: representations exist and are primitive, rather than arising as accidental results from a heterogeneous set of constraints. The original analyses presented in this book are grounded in the languages that the author is best familiar with, i.e. (Western) Slavic, French, German and some Semitic. Particular attention is paid to diachronic evidence in its relation to the synchronic state of languages.

A Lateral Theory of Phonology Volume 1 What is CVCV and why should it be 1st Table of contents:

1 Editorial note: two volumes
2 Foreword
3 How to use this book
4 Conventions used in this book
Part One: What is CVCV?
1. Introduction
2. Open versus closed syllables in CVCV
3. A unified theory of vowel – zero alternations
4. Alternating vowels are present in the lexicon
5. The beginning of the word: “#” = CV
6. The Coda Mirror
7. Consequences of the Coda Mirror: no confusion between Government and Licensing anymore
8. A syntax of phonology
9. Lateral relations are head-final: length in phonology
10. Syllabic and trapped consonants in CVCV
Part Two: Why CVCV ?
1. Introduction
2. Principles of argumentation I: disjunctive contexts
3. Principles of argumentation II: representations and their function
4. Principles of argumentation III: generality of processes
5. Principles of argumentation IV: a better solution for extrasyllabicity than extrasyllabicity
6. Argument 1. Languages without initial restrictions
7. Argument 2. What you get is NOT what you see: Tina Turner was wrong
8. Argument 3. Description vs. explanation of restrictions on word-initial consonant clusters
9. Argument 4. Lower: empty Nuclei and regressive internuclear relations have been used for over 30
10. Argument 5. The life of “yers” outside of Slavic and in locations where vowels do not altern
11. Argument 6. Unified representations for the syllable and stress
12. Argument 7. Licensing power of final empty Nuclei parameterised: paired vs. impaired behaviour o
13. Argument 8. The Coda Mirror
14. Argument 9. News from the yer context: what happens in Codas and before an unpronounced alternat
15. Argument 10. What sonorants do in Codas: a unified theory of melodic reaction on positional plig
General Conclusion
Appendices
1. List of parameters and their translation into CVCV and other theories
2. Closed Syllable Shortening vs. diminutive lengthening in Czech
3. Polish two-membered word-initial consonant clusters
4. A short guide to 1990 Government Phonology

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