Word stress has long presented challenges to phonologists, as they have sought to uncover patterns in its distribution, and devise models to account for its behaviour and formal representation both within single languages and cross-linguistically. In this collection, a team of w…
"Surveys what has been learned about phonological development in early infancy and raises questions for further study"--
This text surveys the range of well-known non-sequential phonological phenomena that are problematic for the traditional one-dimensional idealisation of language. It makes a valuable contribution to phonology and phonetics, focusing on the role of these simultaneous features in …
Dennis R. Preston, Oklahoma State University and Nancy Niedzielski, Rice University.
The publication of this edited volume comes at a time when interest in the acquisition of phonology by both children learning a first language and adults learning a second is starting to swell. The ten contributions, from established scholars and relative newcomers alike, provid…
The term ‘Maya’, in Indian traditions, refers to our sensory perception of the world and, as such, to a superficial reality (or ‘un–reality’) that we must look beyond to find the inner reality of things. Applied to the study of language, we perceive sounds, a superficial reality…
"The term 'Maya' refers to our sensory perception of the world and to a superficial reality that we must look beyond to find the inner reality of things. Applied to the study of language, we perceive sounds, a superficial reality, and then we seek structures, the underlying real…
Nine papers on Yupik Eskimo prosody systems are presented. An introductory section gives background information on the Yupik language and dialects, defines prosody, and provides notes on orthography. The papers include: "A History of the Study of Yupik Prosody" (Michael Krauss);…
by Jacobs, Haike, Gussenhoven, Carlos
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