TY  - BOOK
AU  - Easterday,Shelece
TI  - Highly complex syllable structure: A typological and diachronic study 
T2  - Studies in Laboratory Phonology
SN  - 9783961101948
PB  - Language Science Press
KW  - Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Language arts
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - The syllable is a natural unit of organization in spoken language whose strongest cross-linguistic patterns are often explained in terms of a universal preference for the CV structure. Syllable patterns involving long sequences of consonants are both typologically rare and theoretically marginalized, with few approaches treating these as natural or unproblematic structures. This book is an investigation of the properties of languages with highly complex syllable patterns. The two aims are (i) to establish whether these languages share other linguistic features in common such that they constitute a distinct linguistic type, and (ii) to identify possible diachronic paths and natural mechanisms by which these patterns come about in the history of a language. These issues are investigated in a diversified sample of 100 languages, 25 of which have highly complex syllable patterns
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/8a9209c5-80cc-451c-9db4-e866c024f44e
ER  -