Journal article
Palatal nasal decomposition in Slovene, Upper Sorbian and Polish
Journal of Linguistics, Vol.44(1), pp.169-204
2008
DOI: 10.1017/S0022226707004987
Abstract
This article investigates the types of palatal nasal decomposition from the perspective of three Slavic languages: Slovene, Upper Sorbian and Polish. The prepalatal nasal exhibits three different patterns of behaviour: retention, decomposition and depalatalization. Decomposition results in a cluster of the glide [j] and a nasal consonant. The details of this process are different in each of the three phonological systems considered, for instance, the process can yield either [jn] or [nj], and it can occur either in the onset or in the coda. Also the drivers for decomposition are different and include constraints defining permissible inventories as well as constraints governing assimilation. From the theoretical perspective, nasal decomposition raises the question of whether
ident
constraints should be bidirectional or unidirectional. It is concluded that the latter are indispensable.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Palatal nasal decomposition in Slovene, Upper Sorbian and Polish
- Creators
- Jerzy Rubach
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of Linguistics, Vol.44(1), pp.169-204
- DOI
- 10.1017/S0022226707004987
- ISSN
- 0022-2267
- eISSN
- 1469-7742
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2008
- Academic Unit
- Linguistics
- Record Identifier
- 9984222807902771
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