Syllable Weight - Phonetics, Phonology, Typology

Informationen zum Autor Matthew Gordon is an Associate Professor in the Linguistics Department at University of California! Santa Barbara. He has published a number of articles dealing with topics related to the interface between phonetics and phonology! stress and intonation! and the phonetic documentation of endangered languages. Klappentext An exploration of a series of phonological phenomena previously thought to be unified under the rubric of syllable weight! this book presents findings in the field of theoretical phonology. It combines typological survey with phonetic analysis of languages and reveals a link between phonology of weight and quantitative phonetic parameters. Zusammenfassung The book is the first systematic exploration of a series of phonological phenomena previously thought to be unified under the rubric of syllable weight. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents:Chapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. The Typology of WeightChapter 3. Weight-sensitive ToneChapter 4. Weight-sensitive StressChapter 5. Other Weight-sensitive PhenomenaChapter 6. Conclusions

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Gordon, Gordon Matthew
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.09.2006
• EAN: 9780415976091
• ISBN: 978-0-415-97609-1
• No. of pages: 428
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology