San Duanmu

A Theory of Phonological Features

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book outlines a system of phonological features that is minimally sufficient to distinguish all consonants and vowels in the languages of the world. San Duanmu focuses on a straightforward procedure to interpret empirical data and reveals a surprisingly simple feature system whereby a two-way contrast for each feature proves sufficient.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780199664962
• ISBN-10: 019966496X
• Artikelnr.: 47865636

Autorenporträt

San Duanmu is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Michigan. He received his PhD in Linguistics from MIT in 1990 and has held teaching posts at Fudan University, Shanghai and at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is the author of The Phonology of Standard Chinese (2nd edn; OUP 2007) and Syllable Structure: The Limits of Variation (OUP, 2008).

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: Method
3: Vowel contrasts
4: Vowel height
5: Consonant contrasts
6: A feature system
7: Complex sounds
8: Concluding remarks