Substantive Bias and Natural Classes An Empirical Approach

This book offers a laboratory phonological analysis of the sonority hierarchy and natural classes in nasal harmony using an artificial grammar-learning paradigm. It is aimed at postgraduate students and linguists in general whose research interests lie in phonology, phonetics, and/or psycholinguisti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lin, Yu-Leng
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore Springer Nature Singapore 2019, 2019
Edition:1st ed. 2019
Series:Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • Chapter 2 An introduction to Vowel-consonant nasal harmony
  • Chapter 3 Introduction to artificial goals and challenges
  • Chapter 4 Experiment 1
  • Chapter 5 Experiment 2: sonority effects
  • Chapter 6 Conclusions
  • References
  • Appendix I
  • Appendix II.