{"id":843,"date":"2010-09-04T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T08:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elanguage.net\/blogs\/booknotices\/?p=843"},"modified":"2010-06-23T10:26:15","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T08:26:15","slug":"a-unified-approach-to-nasality-and-voicing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/?p=843","title":{"rendered":"A unified approach to nasality and voicing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em;\"><strong>A unified approach to nasality and voicing. <\/strong>By <strong>Kuniya Nasukawa<\/strong>. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2005. Pp. 189. ISBN <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/unified-approach-to-nasality-and-voicing\/oclc\/58789264&amp;referer=brief_results\">9783110184815<\/a>. $60 (Hb).<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Reviewed by <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistlist.org\/people\/personal\/get-personal-page2.cfm?PersonID=170928\"><strong>Przemys\u0142aw Czarnecki<\/strong><\/a>, <em>Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In this volume, Kuniya Nasukawa addresses a well-known crosslinguistic puzzle: the relationship between voice and nasality. Although this problem has long been recognized in the phonological literature, no satisfactory and unified account exists that solves the question of the peculiar similarities between voicing and nasality. N\u2019s contribution to this discussion is at least two-fold. First, his analysis aims at doing away with language-specific arbitrariness to describe the correlation between voicing, nasalization, and prenasalization. Second, N uses the framework of government phonology, which only allows for phonological information in phonological analyses and which dramatically breaks from the derivational tradition in phonology. In applying this framework, N ensures that the analyses and the subsequent results will be based solely on phonological premises.<\/p>\n<p>The book consists of seven chapters, notes, a reference section, and three helpful indexes (language, subject, and author). Ch. 1 introduces the general problem of the relationship between nasality and voice as phonological features. Ch. 2 addresses the typological aspects of nasality and voicing, while Ch. 3 concentrates on the melodic structure of nasalized, voiced, and prenasalized consonants according to the principles of element theory (i.e. a subtheory of government phonology that works with melodic primes). Chs. 4 and 5 apply and revise the element theory to account for nasality and voicing in Japanese. In Ch. 6, although both nasality and voicing are demonstrated to be assimilatory processes, nasality is shown to be long-distance assimilation, while voicing appears to be a process restricted to a short-distance domain. Ch. 7 summarizes N\u2019s proposals and concludes with a discussion of general issues that call for further analysis and research.<\/p>\n<p>N has indeed produced an interesting and important contribution to the relation between nasality and voicing as well as to the ongoing phonological discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A unified approach to nasality and voicing. By Kuniya Nasukawa. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2005. Pp. 189. ISBN 9783110184815. $60 (Hb). Reviewed by Przemys\u0142aw Czarnecki, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland In this volume, Kuniya Nasukawa addresses a well-known crosslinguistic puzzle: the relationship between voice and nasality. 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