Development in Prosodic Systems

This book brings together papers on various aspects of prosodic development from a generative linguistic perspective. It addresses issues such as the relationship between tone, stress and quantity, the evidence for prosodic change from metrics and discusses the role of analogy, language contact, and language acquisition in change. The unique combination of different methodologies and perspectives investigating development in prosodic systems provides a new and broader scope on historical linguistics.

About the author

Paula Fikkert teaches at the Dutch Department of the University of Nijmegen. Haike Jacobs is Associate Professor at the University of Nijmegen and the Free University of Amsterdam.

Product details

• Assisted by: Paul Fikkert (Editor), Paula Fikkert (Editor), Jacobs (Editor), Jacobs (Editor), Haike Jacobs (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2002
• EAN: 9783110166842
• ISBN: 978-3-11-016684-2
• No. of pages: 463
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 35 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 794 g
• Illustrations: w. figs.
• 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