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Consonant Strength Hierarchies and Danish

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2008

Laurie Bauer
Laurie Bauer
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Department of English, Victoria University of Wellington, Private Bag, Wellington, New Zealand.
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Abstract

This article uses evidence from Danish to test the hierarchies of consonant strength set up in Foley (1977). It is argued that Danish provides evidence to show that the α hierarchy (the hierarchy based on place of articulation) cannot be universal, and may not have any predictive power. There is also some evidence to suggest that some of Foley's other hierarchies may require some minor changes.

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Nordic Journal of Linguistics , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , December 1983 , pp. 115 - 128
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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