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The Phonetics and Phonology of Geminate Consonants

Beschreibung

This book is the first volume specifically devoted to the phonetic manifestation and phonological nature of geminate, or 'long', consonants, a feature of many of the world's languages including Arabic, Bengali, Finnish, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Malayalam, Persian, Saami, Swiss German, and Turkish.

Autor

Haruo Kubozono completed his PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 1988. He taught phonetics and phonology at Nanzan University, Osaka University of Foreign Studies, and Kobe University before moving to the National Institute for Japanese Languages and Linguistics as Professor/Director in 2010. His research interests range from speech disfluencies to speech prosody and its interfaces with syntax and information structure. He recently edited The Handbook of Japanese Phonetics and Phonology (2015, De Gruyter Mouton) as well as special issues on pitch accent and geminate consonants in Lingua (2012) and Journal of East Asian Linguistics (2013), respectively.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Studies in Phonology and Phonetics
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 790g
• ISBN-13: 9780198754930
• ISBN-10: 0198754930
• Artikelnr.: 48063232