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Chapter 2 the Onset Typology 2.1 Introduction
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| Abstract | The study of obstruent clusters to be presented in the following chapters has two main objectives. On the one hand, it intends to provide new empirical information that can contribute to an understanding of the principles that govern the phonotactics of obstruent clusters in onset position. On the other, by understanding such principles, the dissertation aims to present a new and original analysis of one particular type of obstruent clusters, i.e. s+STOP. In this chapter, I provide a discussion of the methodology used in the data collection. I then turn to the generalizations observed on the manner dimension for obstruent clusters occurring in onset position. This is the dimension where the feature [continuant] is relevant. On this dimension, the relative harmony of each individual type of obstruent cluster as well as their relative well-formedness and co-occurrence restrictions are captured. In this chapter, I argue that the markedness relationships among the different types of clusters are responsible for the co-occurrence restrictions observed across languages. The second dimension that will be of interest is the place dimension. On this dimension, restrictions on place features within a cluster are captured. Place generalizations are discussed in Chapter 4. |
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