Laryngeal licensing and laryngeal neutralization in Faroese and Icelandic

Nordic Journal of Linguistics

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 45-79

  Hansson, Gunnar Olafur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Icelandic; Keywords Faroese; laryngeal features; Licensing by Cue; Optimality Theory; positional neutralization; preaspiration; Richness of the Base

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845893010     PISSN: 03325865     EISSN: 15024717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0332586503001008     Document Type: Article

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