Acceleration peaks and sonority in Finnish Sign Language syllables

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of contributors ix
4. Introduction xi
5. Acknowledgments xvi
6. Part 1: Sonority and Phonotactics
7. Sonority and sonority-based relationships within American English monosyllabic words 3
8. The role of sonority in the phonology of Latin 39
9. Is the Sonority Sequencing Principle an epiphenomenon? 65
10. Sonority distance vs. sonority dispersion – a typological survey 101
11. Sonority variation in Stochastic Optimality Theory: Implications for markedness hierarchies 167
12. Sonority intuitions are provided by the lexicon 195
13. Part 2: Sonority and Phonetics
14. Sonority and central vowels: A cross-linguistic phonetic study 219
15. Sonority and the larynx 257
16. Articulatory bases of sonority in English liquids 289
17. Part 3: Sonority and Language Acquisition
18. The Sonority Dispersion Principle in the acquisition of Hebrew word final codas 319
19. Part 4: Sonority and Sign Language
20. Acceleration peaks and sonority in Finnish Sign Language syllables 347
21. Part 5: Sonority and Computational Modeling
22. Sonority and syllabification in a connectionist network: An analysis of BrbrNet 385
23. References 411
24. Author index 473
25. Index of languages, dialects, and linguistic families 481
26. Subject index 485