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Rarities in phonetics and phonology

By Natalia Kuznetsova

Rarities in phonetics and phonology Social Sciences

Rarities in phonetics and phonology

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Rare phenomena play a key role in forming and challenging linguistic theory. This volume presents multi-faceted analyses of rarities in phonetics and phonology, from a wide variety of theoretical standpoints. Some contributions to the volume analyse language-specific rare features, placing them in a broader cross-linguistic context and looking at a sum of their phonological, phonetic, and evolutionary properties, at times also making connections to sociolinguistic factors. Others consider the same (or similar) phenomena from different analytical angles, with extensive cross-referencing, or take a broad analytical or typological stance towards rare phenomena and discuss what it means to be rare. The volume provides a nuanced picture of phonetic and phonological rarities in genealogically diverse languages, mostly lesser-studied, from around the globe. Authors were encouraged to attempt to strike a middle ground between radical exoticisation of the rarities at hand (describing them in idiosyncratic terms) and radical normalisation (underplaying the rarity of the phenomena at hand). Highly theory-specific or technical terminology is avoided or explained carefully, in order to make the book maximally accessible for a wide typologically-minded audience.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
820
Release Date:
2025-05-20
Publication Date:
2025-05-20
Publisher:
Language Science Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
3985541272
ISBN13:
9783985541270
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
1709 g
Height:
175 cm
Width:
246 cm
Thickness:
56 cm
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