"This collection of articles on stress and tone in various Athabaskan languages will interest theoretical linguists and historically oriented linguists alike. The volume brings to light new data on the phonetics and/or phonology of prosody (stress, tone, intonation) in various A…
"This collection of articles on stress and tone in various Athabaskan languages will interest theoretical linguists and historically oriented linguists alike. The volume brings to light new data on the phonetics and/or phonology of prosody (stress, tone, intonation) in various A…
Oostendorp first provides evidence for the constraint CONNECT(N, lax) and discusses the interaction of this constraint with phenomena of vowel length. He then discusses schwa (the empty vowel) in Dutch, French, and Norwegian, showing that this vowel shows a defective behavior at…
"This is the first historical investigation on the nonverbal component of conversation. For the courtly society of 16th and 17th century England, it is argued that a drift appeared toward an increased use of prosodic means of expression at the expense of gestural means. Direct e…
This is the first historical investigation on the nonverbal component of conversation. In the courtly society of 16th and 17th century England, it is argued that a drift appeared toward an increased use of prosodic means of expression at the expense of gestural means. Direct evi…
