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The first serious typological survey of the lenition process in modern phonological literature.
Author : Robert Kirchner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,22 MB
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1136710566
The first serious typological survey of the lenition process in modern phonological literature.
Author : Doris Angel Borrelli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 32,93 MB
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1136724001
First Published in 2002. The Italian phenomenon known as raddoppiamento sintattico, or sometimes raddoppiamento fonosintattico, has received a vast amount of attention. Long recognized in Italian grammar books, the process consists of the gemination of a word-initial consonant in certain environments. The word raddoppiamento means “doubling,” and it is deemed “syntactic” or “phonosyntactic” because the process spans word boundaries. This offers a synchronic and diachronic cross-dialectical study of this phenomenon.
Author : Bruce Hayes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 38,13 MB
Release : 2004-08-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521825784
Phonetically Based Phonology is centred around the hypothesis that phonologies of languages are determined by phonetic principles; that is, phonetic patterns involving ease of articulation and perception are expressed linguistically as grammatical constraints. This book brings together a team of scholars to provide a wide-ranging study of phonetically based phonology. It investigates the role of phonetics in many phonological phenomena - such as assimilation, vowel reduction, vowel harmony, syllable weight, contour line distribution, metathesis, lenition, sonority sequencing, and the Obligatory Contour Principle (OCP) - exploring in particular the phonetic bases of phonological markedness in these key areas. The analyses also illustrate several analytical strategies whereby phonological sound patterns can be related to their phonological underpinnings. Each chapter includes a tutorial discussion of the phonetics on which the phonological discussion is based. Diverse and comprehensive in its coverage, Phonetically Based Phonology will be welcomed by all linguists interested in the relationship between phonetics and phonological theory.
Author : Kuniya Nasukawa
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 23,81 MB
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110218593
This collection of papers focuses on the general theme of phonological strength, bringing together current work being undertaken in a variety of leading theoretical frameworks. Its aim is to show how referring directly to strength relations can facilitate explanation in different parts of the phonological grammar. The papers introduce illuminating data from a wide range of languages including English, Dutch, German, Greek, Japanese, Bambara, Yuhup, Nivkh, Sesotho and other Bantu systems, demonstrating how strength differences are central to the analysis of phonological patterning not only in well-documented cases of segmental asymmetry but also in other areas of description including language acquisition, pitch accent patterns and tonal phenomena. All of the contributors agree on the need for a phonological (as opposed to a phonetic) approach to the question of strength differences, and show how a strength-based analysis may proceed in various theoretical models including Dependency Phonology, Government Phonology, Strict CV Phonology and Optimality Theory. Many of the papers develop a structural account of their data, in which strength relations are understood to reflect asymmetric licensing relations holding between units in representations. The volume provides a snapshot of current thinking on the question of strength in phonology. The range of language data and theoretical contexts it explores give a clear indication that phonological strength acts as a common thread to unite a range of apparently unrelated patterns and processes.
Author : Maria-Josep Solé
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 19,35 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027248419
Examines advanced approaches to sound change from various theoretical and methodological perspectives, including articulatory variation and modeling, speech perception mechanisms and neurobiological processes, geographical and social variation, and diachronic phonology.
Author : Alan C. L. Yu
Publisher : Oxford University Press (UK)
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 38,96 MB
Release : 2013-01-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0199573743
This volume showcases the current state of the art in phonologization research, bringing together work by leading scholars in sound change research from different disciplinary and scholarly traditions.
Author : Marc van Oostendorp
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 3183 pages
File Size : 33,8 MB
Release : 2011-04-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 140518423X
Available online or as a five-volume print set, The Blackwell Companion to Phonology is a major reference work drawing together 124 new contributions from leading international scholars in the field. It will be indispensable to students and researchers in the field for years to come. Key Features: Full explorations of all the most important ideas and key developments in the field Documents major insights into human language gathered by phonologists in past decades; highlights interdisciplinary connections, such as the social and computational sciences; and examines statistical and experimental techniques Offers an overview of theoretical positions and ongoing debates within phonology at the beginning of the twenty-first century An extensive reference work based on the best and most recent scholarly research – ideal for advanced undergraduates through to faculty and researchers Publishing simultaneously in print and online; visit www.companiontophonology.com for full details Additional features of the online edition (ISBN: 978-1-4443-3526-2): Powerful searching, browsing, and cross-referencing capabilities, including Open URL linking, with all entries classified by key topic, subject, place, people, and period For those institutions already subscribing to Blackwell Reference Online, it offers fully integrated and searchable content with the comprehensive Handbooks in Linguistics series
Author : Jason Kandybowicz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 18,10 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0190256346
This book examines the endangered languages of Africa from both documentary and theoretical perspectives, highlighting the threats of extinction many of them face and the challenges and implications each bring to bear on linguistic theory. It focuses on the symbiosis between documentary and theoretical methodologies, and its consequences for the preservation of endangered languages, both in the African context and more broadly.
Author : Rafael A. Núñez-Cedeño
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 22,83 MB
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 150150049X
In this volume, notable scholars honor James W. Harris for his contributions to Romance phonology. Inscribed within generative grammar, the studies seek to explain various phonological processes, structured around glides, aspects of onsets/codas as well as stress and weight. This book will be a useful reference tool for specialists in theoretical phonology, language acquisition, language in contact, bilingualism, and Spanish dialectology.
Author : Joaquim Brandão de Carvalho
Publisher : De Gruyter Mouton
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 36,32 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
The book is a collection of articles which aims at providing an overall treatment of the question of Lenition/Fortition in its many aspects: historical, typological, synchronic, diachronic, empirical and theoretical. Various current approaches to ph