A unified approach to nasality and voicing.P237 2005-008473 3-11-018481-8 A unified approach to nasality and voicing. Nasukawa, Kuniya. (Studies in generative grammar generative grammar Finite set of formal rules that will produce all the grammatical sentences of a language. The idea of a generative grammar was first definitively articulated by Noam Chomsky in Syntactic Structures (1957). ; 65) Walter de Gruyter, [c]2005 189 p. $72.90 Nasukawa (Tohoku Gakuin U., Sendai, Japan) offers a first attempt to develop a model of melodic representation that directly encodes the inter-relationship between nasality and voicing. Taking advantage of recent theoretical frameworks that aim to reduce the set of traditionally established melodic distinctions in the interests of generative gen·er·a·tive adj. 1. Having the ability to originate, produce, or procreate. 2. Of or relating to the production of offspring. generative pertaining to reproduction. restrictiveness, he investigates a large number of languages in order to capture the relational typology typology /ty·pol·o·gy/ (ti-pol´ah-je) the study of types; the science of classifying, as bacteria according to type. typology the study of types; the science of classifying, as bacteria according to type. of the two properties, together with their universal and language-specific patterns of alternation alternation /al·ter·na·tion/ (awl?ter-na´shun) the regular succession of two opposing or different events in turn. alternation of generations metagenesis. such as nasal harmony and voicing assimilation. |
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