Sound structure in language

Sound structure in language / Jørgen Rischel ; edited and with an introduction by Nina Grønnum, Frans Gregersen, and Hans Basbøll.

"This book presents Jorgen Rischel's most important work on language and sound structure. It includes some of the most original and groundbreaking research of four decades. The articles focus on stress, syllabification, accent, and vowel harmony, and their interactions with other aspects o...

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Main Author: Rischel, Jørgen (Author)
Other Authors: Grønnum, Nina (Editor), Gregersen, Frans (Editor), Basbøll, Hans (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Series:Oxford linguistics.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Phonology.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Phonetics & Phonology.
Fonología
Grammar, Comparative and general > Phonology
Fonologie.
Prosodie (taalkunde)
Scandinavische talen.
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Table of Contents:
  • Formal linguistics and real speech
  • Consonant gradation : a problem in Danish phonology and morphology
  • On functional load in phonemics
  • Derivation as a syntactic process in Greenlandic
  • Consonant reduction in Faroese noncompound wordforms
  • Stress, juncture, and syllabification in phonemic description
  • Is there just one hierarchy of prosodic categories?
  • Compound stress in Danish without a cycle
  • On unit accentuation in Danish-and the distinction between deep and surface phonology
  • Morphemic tone and word tone in eastern Norwegian
  • Asymmetric vowel harmony in Greenlandic fringe dialects
  • Structural and functional aspects of tone split in Thai
  • A note on diachronic data, universals, and research strategies
  • Phoneme, grapheme, and the 'importance' of distinctions. Functional aspects of the Scandinavian Runic reform
  • A unified theory of Nordic i-umlaut, syncope, and stød
  • Diphthongization in Faroese
  • Devoicing or strengthening of long obstruents in Greenlandic
  • The role of a 'mixed' language in linguistic reconstruction
  • Typology and reconstruction of numeral systems : the case of Austroasiatic
  • The Mlabri enigma : is Mlabri a primary hunter-gatherer language or the result of an ethnically and socially complex founder event?.

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