This book is the first detailed study since the 1970sof the characteristics of distinctive nasalization in sound change.
About the Author
Dr. John Hajek is currently Lecturer in Italian and is Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Linguistics at the University of Melbourne.
Features
* First major and detailed evaluation of universalist claims about the development of nasalization/sound change. * Strongly multidiscplinary: phonological and historical approach backed by the results of experimental phonetics and supported by typological evidence. * Taps into resurgence of interest in nasality and language typology
