TY - BOOK ID - 77938453 TI - The phonology of coronals PY - 1997 VL - 149 SN - 1283312417 9786613312419 9027275939 9789027275936 1556198647 9027236534 9789027236531 9781556198649 PB - Amsterdam Benjamins DB - UniCat KW - Coronals (Phonetics) KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Phonology KW - Coronality (Phonetics) KW - Consonants KW - Phonology. KW - Coronales KW - Phonologie KW - Phonetics KW - Linguistics KW - Philology KW - Grammar, Comparative and general Phonology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77938453 AB - This study investigates the phonological behavior of coronal consonants, i.e. sounds produced with the tip or blade of the tongue. The analysis draws on data from over 120 languages and dialects. A definition of coronality is proposed that rejects the current view holding that palatals are positively marked for this feature. The feature [coronal] is assumed to be privative; the natural class of noncoronals is captured with the feature [peripheral], which dominates [labial] and [velar] in feature geometry. The book contains a detailed examination of the phonological patterning of segments belon ER -