Sound structure in language /

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Author / Creator:Rischel, Jørgen.
Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Description:xx, 488 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:[Oxford linguistics]
[Oxford linguistics].
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7538996
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Other authors / contributors:Grønnum, Nina.
Gregersen, Frans.
Basbøll, Hans.
ISBN:9780199544349
0199544344
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [441]-473) and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • Part One. Prerequisites and Analysis
  • 1. Formal Linguistics and Real Speech
  • 2. Consonant Gradation: A Problem in Danish Phonology and Morphology
  • 3. On Functional Load in Phonemics
  • 4. Derivation as a Syntactic Process in Greenlandic
  • 5. Consonant Reduction in Faroese Noncompound Wordforms
  • Part Two. Prosody
  • 6. Stress, Juncture, and Syllabification in Phonemic Description
  • 7. Is There Just One Hierarchy of Prosodic Categories?
  • 8. Compound Stress in Danish Without a cycle
  • 9. On Unit Accentuation in Danish - and the Distinction Between Deep and Surface Phonology
  • 10. Morphemic Tone and Word Tone in Eastern Norwegian
  • 11. Asymmetric Vowel Harmony in Greenlandic Fringe Dialects
  • 12. Structural and Functional Aspects of Tone Split in Thai
  • Part Three. Speech Sounds in History and Culture
  • 13. A Note on Diachronic Data, Universals, and Research Strategies
  • 14. Phoneme, Grapheme, and the "Importance" of Distinctions
  • Functional Aspects of the Scandinavian Runic Reform
  • 15. A Unified Theory of Nordic i-umlaut, Syncope, and stod
  • 16. Diphthongization in Faroese
  • 17. Devoicing or Strengthening of Long Obstruents in Greenlandic
  • 18. The Role of a "Mixed" Language in Linguistic Reconstruction
  • 19. Typology and Reconstruction of Numeral Systems: The Case of Austroasiatic
  • 20. The Mlabri Enigma: is Mlabri a Primary Hunter-Gatherer Language or the Result of an Ethnically and Socially Complex Founder Event?
  • Jorgen Rischel's Bibliography
  • References
  • Index