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Part 1 General issues: theories of the syllable, Harry van der Hulst, Nancy A. Ritter; morpheme structure constraints and the phonotactics of Dutch, Geert Booij; syllables in Danish, Hans Basboll; the syllable in Hindi, Manjari Ohala. Part 2 Government phonology: head-driven phonology, Harry van der Hulst, Nancy A. Ritter; the syllable in German - exploring an alternative, Wiebke Brockhaus; consonant clusters and governing relations - Polish initial consonant sequences, Eugeniusz Cyran, Edmund Gussmann; Hungarian syllable structure -arguments for/against complex constituents, Miklos Torkenczy, Peter Siptar; the Latin syllable, Giovanna Marotta; syllables in western Koromfe, John Rennison. Part 3 Moraic phonology: the syllable in Luganda phonology and morphology, Larry Hyman, Francis Katamba; Kihehe syllable structure, David Odden, Mary Odden; Dschang syllable structure, Steven Bird; the syllable in Chinese, San Duanmu; the syllable and syllabification in modern spoken Arabic (S'an ani and Cairene), Janet Watson; the Romansch syllable, Jean-Pierre Montreuil. Part 4 Optimality theory: syllables and phonotactics in Irish, Maire Ni Chiosain; a preliminary account of some aspects of Leurbost Gaelic syllable structure, Norval Smith; quantity in Norwegian syllable structure, Gjert Kristoffersen. Part 5 Other approaches: a syllable-level feature in Finnish, Richard Ogden; Sievers' law in Vedic, Andrea Calabrese.

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• Assisted by: Harry Van Der Hulst (Editor), Ritter (Editor), Ritter (Editor), Nancy Ritter (Editor), Harr van der Hulst (Editor), Harry van der Hulst (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1999
• EAN: 9783110162745
• ISBN: 978-3-11-016274-5
• No. of pages: 777
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 57 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 1296 g
• Series: Studies in Generative Grammar; Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]; Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]; ISSN
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics