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Suurmeijer, Luuk (2019)

R-coloring interactions in Element Theory: A Typological Survey

Bachelor thesis | Taalwetenschap (BA)

Using a wide variety of languages I investigate numerous rhotic-vowel interactions and extrapolate that the account of Element Theory is quite successfull in dealing with rhotics as a class.^^Rhotics are an interesting class of phones in the range of human speech sounds as they are tied together by their similar phonological behaviour rather than their phonetic proporties. For this reason previous generative phonological accounts have trouble defining and accounting for the class of rhotics. This thesis researches whether the phonological theory titled Element Theory is able to account for the unified behaviour of rhotics by interpreting rhotics as the vowel primitive (A)

Phonology

Phonetics

Rhotics

Element Theory

Theoretical phonology

Consonant-vowel interactions

Author

Suurmeijer, Luuk

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Taal & Cognitie

Supervisors

Van 't Veer, B.M.

ECTS Credits

10

Language

en