Contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Contributors VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Segmental strength
6. Why final obstruent devoicing is weakening 9
7. Headship as melodic strength 47
8. Transparency in nasal harmony and the limits of reductionism 79
9. Developmental shifts in phonological strength relations 113
10. Strength relations and first language acquisition 149
11. Modelling initial weakenings 183
12. Part II: Prosodic strength
13. Against rhymal adjuncts: the syllabic affiliation of English postvocalic consonants 221
14. Defining initial strength in clusterless languages in Strict CV 251
15. Strength relations between consonants: a syllable-basedOT approach 285
16. The phonological structure of the Limburg tonal accents 317
17. Projection of licensing potency from a phonological expression 373
18. Backmatter 391