Bert Botma
Bert Botma
List of John Benjamins publications for which Bert Botma plays a role.
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Kok, Kenneth de, Bert Botma and Marijn van 't Veer. 2018.
Glides and laryngeals as a structural class.
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2018, Le Bruyn, Bert and Janine Berns (eds.), pp. 51–64
Phonological processes typically affect natural classes of sounds, with the members of such classes sharing some phonetic property to the exclusion of other sounds. Recent typological work shows that not all phonological classes are natural, however (Mielke 2008). This paper considers the class of… read more | Article
Nivkh, a genetic isolate spoken in the Russian Far East, displays a pattern of stress-dependent height restrictions in a linguistic area where tongue-root harmony is prevalent. We argue that the Nivkh pattern derives from an earlier tongue-root system. This system developed into a height-based… read more | Chapter
Typological work shows that voiced fricatives like /β ð/ occur more often without their voiceless counterparts than with them, contrary to what would be expected on the basis of markedness relations between voicing and obstruents. This paper suggests that many of the offending fricatives are more… read more | Article
Botma, Bert and Norval Smith. 2006.
A dependency account of the fortis–lenis contrast in Cama.
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2006, Weijer, Jeroen van de and Bettelou Los (eds.), pp. 15–27
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Botma, Bert and Erik Jan van der Torre. 2000.
The prosodic interpretation of sonorants in Dutch.
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2000, Hoop, Helen de and Ton van der Wouden (eds.), pp. 17–29
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