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Studies on the Phonological Word

By T. Alan Hall , Ursula Kleinhenz (Eds.)

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year
1999
ISBN
9027236801, 9789027236807
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
30 MB (31802104 bytes)
Series
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 174
Edition
1st
Pages
304\304
Time added
2014-07-06 18:13:02

Description

The present volume consists of nine articles dealing with the role of the constituent ‘phonological word’ (or ‘prosodic word’) in various typologically diverse languages. These languages and their respective families subsume Indo-European (Dutch, German, English, European Portuguese), Bantu (SiSwati, KiNande), Algonquian (Cree), Siouan (Dakota), and Salishan (Lushootseed). One contribution examines the phonological word in a sign language.The theoretical issues dealt with in the book include: evidence for the phonological word (e.g. rules, phonotactics, syllabification, stress patterns), the connection between morphosyntactic and prosodic structure (e.g. alignment phenomena in Optimality Theory), and the relationship between the phonological word and other prosodic constituents (e.g. the prosodic representation of clitics).The volume will be of interest to all linguists and advanced students of linguistics working on Prosodic Phonology, phonology-morphology and phonology-syntax interface and Optimality Theory.

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