Synchronic and Diachronic Approaches to Tonal Accent

Sommario

• Series preface


• List of figures


• List of tables


• List of contributors


• 1: Pavel Iosad and Björn Köhnlein: Introduction


• 2: José Ignacio Hualde, Ander Beristain, and Ane Icardo Isasa: Word-prosodic constraints and bidialectalism in Basque


• 3: Rachel Fournier and Carlos Gussenhoven: Context-specific tonoexodus in the dialect of Roermond


• 4: Draga Zec and Elizabeth Zsiga: The interplay of lexical and intonational tones in Serbian


• 5: Nina Hagen Kaldhol and Sverre Stausland Johnsen: There is no 'one High tone per word' rule in Somali


• 6: Patrik Bye: Lexical accent and intonation in Peninsular North Germanic pragmatics, phonology, geography, history


• 7: Björn Köhnlein and Yuhong Zhu: A metrical analysis of prosodically conditioned stem allomorphy in Uspanteko


• 8: Harry van der Hulst: Accents and how to get rid of them (or not)


• 9: Björn Köhnlein and Pavel Iosad: Notes on theoretical approaches to tonal accent


• References


• Index

Riassunto

This volume explores tonal accent across a variety of the world's languages from both a synchronic and diachronic perspective. The chapters in this volume present and evaluate the current state of research in the field as well as outline directions for future research, based on novel and underused empirical data.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Pavel (Senior Lecturer Iosad
• Con la collaborazione di: Pavel Iosad (Editore), Iosad Pavel (Editore), Björn Köhnlein (Editore)
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 03.04.2025, ritardato
• EAN: 9780198877011
• ISBN: 978-0-19-887701-1
• Pagine: 304
• Serie: Oxford Studies in Phonology and Phonetics
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Linguistica generale e comparata; Phonetics, phonology, Historical & comparative linguistics, Historical and comparative linguistics