Substantive Bias and Natural Classes An Empirical Approach /

• Main Author: Lin, Yu-Leng (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics, 8
• Subjects: Psycholinguistics.; Phonology.; Linguistics.; Phonology and Phonetics.; Theoretical Linguistics.

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...

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.