Syllable Weight: Phonetics, Phonology, Typology (Studies in by Matthew Gordon PDF

By Matthew Gordon

The publication is the 1st systematic exploration of a sequence of phonological phenomena formerly considered unified lower than the rubric of syllable weight. Drawing on a typological survey of four hundred languages, it really is proven that the conventional notion that languages are internally constant of their weight standards throughout weight-based techniques isn't corroborated through the cross-linguistic survey. instead of being constant throughout phenomena inside person languages, weight seems to be delicate to the actual strategies concerned such that diverse phenomena demonstrate assorted distributions in weight standards. The booklet is going directly to discover the motivations in the back of the process-specific nature of weight, displaying that phonetic components clarify a lot of the difference in weight standards among phenomena and likewise the adaptation in standards among languages for a unmarried approach. The publication is not like different reports in combining an intensive typological survey with specific phonetic research of many languages. The discovering that the generally studied phenomenon of syllable weight isn't a unified phenomenon, opposite to the tested view, is an important end result for the sector of theoretical phonology. The e-book can be a major contribution to the sphere of phonetically-driven phonology, because it establishes a detailed hyperlink among the phonology of weight and numerous quantitative phonetic parameters.

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