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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

Coronals (Phonetics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Phonology --- Coronality (Phonetics) --- Consonants --- Phonology. --- Coronales --- Phonologie --- Phonetics --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Phonology