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Principles of Radical CV Phonology A Theory of Segmental and Syllabic Structure


Free Download Harry van der Hulst, "Principles of Radical CV Phonology: A Theory of Segmental and Syllabic Structure "
English | ISBN: 1474454666 | 2020 | 504 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Harry van der Hulst’s model of Radical CV Phonology has roots in the framework of Dependency Phonology, but proposes a rather different ‘geometry’, which reduces the set of unary elements to just two: |C| and |V|. The model explains the phonological distinctions that function contrastively in the world’s languages rather than presenting it as a ‘random’ list.

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