San Duanmu

Syllable Structure: The Limits of Variation

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Produktbeschreibung

This book looks at the range of possible syllables in human languages. The syllable is a central notion in phonology but phonologists are divided on even the most elementary issues. San Duanmu explores and clarifies these and many other related issues through an in-depth analysis of entire lexicons of several languages

Produktdetails

• Oxford Linguistics
• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 163mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9780199267590
• ISBN-10: 0199267596
• Artikelnr.: 26006383

Autorenporträt

San Duanmu is Professor of Linguistics, University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from MIT in 1990 and has held teaching posts at Fudan University, Shanghai (1981-86) and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1991-present). He is the author of The Phonology of Standard Chinese (2nd edition 2007, Oxford).

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: Features, Sounds, Complex Sounds, and the No Contour Principle
3: Theories of Syllable Structure
4: Syllable Structure in Chinese
5: Standard Chinese
6: Shanghai
7: Syllable and Tone
8: English I: The Maximal Syllable Size
9: English II: Syllable-internal Constraints
10: German
11: Jiarong (rGyalrong)
12: Theoretical Implications
References
Index