Can weakening processes start in initial position? The case of aspiration of /s/ and /f/

Chapters in this book

1. I-XII I
2. Natural Phono(morpho)logy: A view from the outside 1
3. Part I: Theoretical
4. Principles of naturalness in phonology and across components 41
5. Natural Phonology without the syllable 53
6. Accentuations 73
7. Can weakening processes start in initial position? The case of aspiration of /s/ and /f/ 97
8. Steps towards a cognitive phonology 107
9. The application of Natural Phonology to computerized speech understanding 121
10. Part II: Descriptive
11. Syllable and foot in French clipping 135
12. On the analysis of geminates in Standard Italian and Italian dialects 153
13. Postlexical stress processes and their segmental consequences illustrated with Polish and Czech 189
14. Stress, syllables, and segments: their interplay in an Italian dialect continuum 201
15. Portuguese secondary nasal vowels and phonological representations 223
16. English reduced vowels and the nature of natural processes 239
17. Preferred sound shapes of new roots: On some phonotactic and prosodic properties of shortenings in German and French 261
18. References 293
19. Subject Index 333
20. Index of Languages 341
21. Index of Authors 343