TY  - BOOK
AU  - Easterday, Shelece
AB  - 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.
DO  - 10.5281/zenodo.3268721
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1006730
ID  - OAPEN ID: 2363-5576
ID  - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23420
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/23420/1/1006730.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/23420/1/1006730.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/31657
PB  - Language Science Press
PP  - Berlin
PY  - 2019-11-13
SN  - 9783961101948
TI  - Highly complex syllable structure : A typological and diachronic study
ER  - 
