Complexity in Polish Phonotactics: On Features, Weights, Rankings and Preferences

by Paula Orzechowska

Book Overview

This book provides a refreshing perspective on the description, study and representation of consonant clusters in Polish. What are the sources of phonotactic complexity? What properties or principles motivate the phonological structure of initial and final consonant clusters? In answering these questions, a necessary turning point consists in investigating sequences of consonants at their most basic level, namely in terms of phonological features...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811372985
• ISBN13: 9789811372988
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 325 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"