Principles of Radical CV Phonology: A Theory of Segmental and Syllabic Structure
Harry van der Hulst
Abstract
Based on 30 years of research, this book presents a theory about the ‘speech sounds’ that occur in human spoken and signed languages. A central task is to identify the ultimate elements that speech sounds consist of. Van der Hulst proposes a radical theory that recognizes only two elements: |C| and |V|. Based on a small set of first principles, the book explains what is a possible speech sound, providing explicit structures for all speech sounds that occur in the world’s languages, with numerous examples from hundreds of languages. It also deals with the organization of speech sounds in syllab ... More
Keywords: Features, segmental structure, syllable structure, dependency phonology, government phonology, elements, sign language phonology
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2020 | Print ISBN-13: 9781474454667 |
| Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: May 2022 | DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474454667.001.0001 |
