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Syllable and Word Languages.
Title:
Syllable and Word Languages.
Author:
Caro Reina, Javier.
ISBN:
9783110346992
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (531 pages)
Series:
linguae & litterae ; v.40

linguae & litterae
Contents:
linguae & litterae -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations and symbols -- Preface -- References -- Introduction: Syllable and word languages -- 1 Rhythm-based classifications -- 1.1 Syllable-timed vs. stress-timed languages ("Isochrony Hypothesis") -- 1.2 Rhythm class hypothesis -- 2 The phonological typology of syllable and word languages -- 3 Typological parameters -- 4 Research areas -- 5 Summaries of the contributions in this volume -- Part 1: Theoretical issues -- Part 2: Diachronic approaches -- Part 3: Synchronic approaches (Germanic languages) -- Part 4: Synchronic approaches (Romance languages) -- References -- Part 1: Theoretical issues -- The typology of syllable and word languages and Swedish phonological structure -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Theoretical preliminaries -- 2.1 Prosodic Phonology -- 2.2 The phonological word -- 2.3 Language-particular and cross-linguistic comparability of phonological words -- 2.4 One or several SL/WL continua -- 2.5 Indirect reference to morphosyntax -- 2.6 Domain of phonotactic constraints -- 2.7 Direction of processing in the phonological component and configurative function -- 2.8 Syllabification -- 2.9 Diagnostics for syllable and word languages -- 3 Canonical forms of native Swedish morphemes -- 4 The SL/WL criteria applied to Swedish -- 4.1 Word stress, tonal accent -- 4.2 Syllable structure in different positions in the word -- 4.3 Geminate vs. ambisyllabic consonants -- 4.4 Word-external vs. word-internal sandhi -- 4.5 Vowel inventories in accented vs. unaccented position -- 4.6 Vowel elision and consonant insertions -- 4.7 Word-related phonological processes -- 5 Syllabification -- 6 Recovery of grammatical boundaries by phonological means -- 6.1 Clues from morpheme structure -- 6.2 Clues from the outputs of rule applications.

7 Swedish and SL/WL typology: Summary and final remarks -- 7.1 Descriptive/typological considerations -- 7.2 A concluding theoretical note -- References -- Syllable complexity in the diachrony of Romance languages: A center vs. periphery view and the syllable vs. word rhythm paradigm -- 1 Introductory remarks -- 2 Tendencies in Latin and Romance languages: Syllabic reduction vs. persistence of shell complexity -- 2.1 Syllabic reduction -- 2.2 Persistence of complex syllable types -- 3 A center vs. periphery view on syllable type complexity in Romance languages -- 3.1 Syllable shell complexity as a typological parameter in Romance languages -- 3.2 Complexity: central vs. peripheral -- 4 Different ways of coping with syllable shell complexity -- References -- Pervasive syllables and phonological unity in words -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A syllable or a word language? -- 2.1 Korean -- 2.2 Turkish -- 2.2.1 Vowel harmony and the phonological word in Turkish -- 2.2.2 Minimal word size and category-specific phonology -- 3 Pertinacity of syllables: Emergent segments via syllable repair -- 3.1 Vowel hiatus -- 3.1.1 Vowel assimilation: A syllabically conditioned (but word-sensitive) process -- 3.2 (In)Tolerance for consonant clusters and word edge asymmetries -- 3.2.1 Syllabically conditioned perceptual epenthesis -- 4 Syllables and beyond: Phonology for word-segmentation -- 5 Pervasive syllables in morphological and prosodic change -- 6 Discussion and conclusion -- References -- Monosyllabic Lengthening in German and its relation to the syllable vs. word language typology -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Monosyllabic Lengthening in Zurich German -- 2.1 Moraic theory (Hayes 1989) -- 2.2 MSL in Zurich German: Quantity contrasts and word minimality -- 3 More on Monosyllabic Lengthening in High German varieties -- 3.1 Monosyllabic Lengthening or paradigm levelling?.

3.2 A brief synopsis of High German quantity developments -- 4 Doing typology: In search of correlations and implications -- 5 Conclusion and outlook -- References -- Vowel and consonant epentheses in the history of German from the typological perspective of syllable and word languages -- 1 Syllable and word as typologically relevant phonological domains -- 2 Syllable and word language as opposite typological prototypes -- 3 Vowel epentheses in Old and Early New High German -- 3.1 The Old High German cluster breakers -- 3.2 The Early New High German trochee makers -- 4 Consonant epentheses in Old and Early New High German -- 4.1 The Old High German hiatus breakers -- 4.2 The Early New High German word edge strengtheners -- 4.3 The glottal stop and h as word edge markers in contemporary German -- 5 Summary -- References -- Part 2: Diachronic approaches -- Scandinavian word phonology: Evidence for a typological cycle -- 1 The Germanic languages: Some general structural patterns and drift phenomena -- 2 Intervening factors -- 3 Splitting up Proto-Germanic: Mainly a case of vowel change? -- 4 On the phonotactics and word structure of Proto-Germanic and Ancient Nordic -- 5 West Scandinavian: A typological change from a predominantlysyllable language to a word language -- 6 East Scandinavian: Evidence of a typological cycle and counter-drift -- 6.1 The consequences of retroflex consonants in unstressed syllables -- 6.2 The rise of new enclitic inflections: A starting point for a new typological cycle -- 6.3 Language contact: A typological counter-drift towards a more syllable-relatedlanguage -- 6.4 Language cultivation: Introducing spelling pronunciation in modern Swedish -- 7 Conclusion -- References -- Syllable- and word-related developments in earlier Indo-Iranian -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The typological parameters.

1.2 The older Indo-Iranian languages and their attestation -- 1.3 Overview of the phonological systems -- 1.4 Accent and stress -- 2 Phonological inventories and their relation to words and syllables -- 3 Syllable structure -- 3.1 Clusters and shell complexity -- 3.1.1 Onset clusters -- 3.1.2 Coda clusters -- 3.1.3 Conclusion -- 3.2 Sonority Hierarchy -- 3.3 Vowel epenthesis and loss -- 3.4 Consonantal processes -- 4 Sandhi and resyllabification -- 5 General conclusions -- References -- From Christel to Christina, from Klaus toNico: A diachronic study of German first names (1945-2010) and their shift towards the syllable language type -- 1 German proper names and their changing structures -- 2 German first names and their historical development -- 3 Linguistic comparison of first names and common nouns since 1945 -- 3.1 Number of syllables -- 3.2 Accent positions -- 3.3 Consonant clusters -- 3.4 Hiatuses -- 3.5 Final schwa -- 3.6 Full vowels in unstressed positions -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Part 3: Synchronic approaches (Germanic languages) -- Reduction and deletion of glottal stops and geminates at phonological word boundaries in German compounds: Effects of word frequency and accentuation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Materials and methods -- 2.1 Speech material -- 2.2 Acoustic analysis and segmentation -- 2.3 Statistic analysis -- 2.4 Frequency counts -- 3 Results -- 3.1 Glottal stop and glottalization -- 3.1.1 Combined realization categories -- 3.1.1.1 Frequency -- 3.1.1.2 Accentuation -- 3.1.2 Deletion of the glottal stop -- 3.1.3 Summary -- 3.2 Degemination -- 3.2.1 Cluster durations -- 3.2.2 Categorical evaluation -- 4 Summary and discussion -- References -- Phonological domains in Luxembourgish and their relevance for the phonological system -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Luxembourgish -- 3 (Potential) Syllable language traits.

3.1 Distribution of schwa -- 3.2 Schwa epenthesis -- 4 Word language traits -- 5 Phenomena related to the syllable and the phonological word at the same time -- 5.1 n-rule -- 5.2 Resyllabification and voicing assimilation -- 6 Discussion -- References -- Low German: A profile of a word language -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Low German as a word language -- 2.1 Criteria -- 2.2 Phoneme system -- 2.3 Stress sensitivity in segmental phonotactics -- 2.3.1 Syllable structure, word structure, and stress -- 2.3.2 Word-medial consonants -- 2.4 Phonological processes -- 2.4.1 Word-medial obstruent voicing -- 2.4.2 Stem-final consonants and postverbal /ɪk/ -- 2.4.3 Expanding phonological words: Function words -- 2.5 Word-level suprasegmental: The Knick phoneme -- 3 Areal perspective: North German, Scandinavian, and beyond -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Phonological and phonetic considerations for a classification of Swiss German dialects as a word language or a syllable language -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Phonetic correlates of phonological differences -- 3 Swiss German dialect - A syllable language? -- 3.1 Word-related features in Swiss German dialects -- 3.2 Syllable-related features in Swiss German dialects -- 4 Prosodic evidence on the phonetic level -- 4.1 Resyllabification and the duration of fricatives -- 4.2 Duration of schwa -- 4.3 Intonation contour -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Part 4: Synchronic approaches (Romance languages) -- Central Catalan in the framework of the typology of syllable and word languages -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Determining the phonological domains -- 3 Syllable structure -- 4 Phonotactic restrictions -- 4.1 Stress-related restrictions -- 4.2 Position-related restrictions -- 5 Word-related processes -- 5.1 Word-final obstruent devoicing -- 5.2 Affrication of word-final /ʒ/ -- 5.3 Obstruent voicing across words.

5.4 Deletion of unstressed vowels.
Abstract:
The linguae & litterae series, edited by Peter Auer, Gesa von Essen and Werner Frick, documents the research activities of the School of Language and Literature of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS). These research activities in literary studies and linguistics are characterized by an approach that is theoretically and methodologically "state of the art" and interdisciplinarily open. In linguistics the accent is on the corpus-based, quantitative and qualitative investigation of language; in literary studies the focus is on the comparative, transdisciplinary analysis of literary phenomena in their cultural contexts. At the same time the series deals with the productive interfaces and synergies between modern linguistics and literary studies (as well as the humanities, social and natural sciences with which they interact). It seeks a new, contemporary reformulation of the humanities research curriculum and its problem and concept orientation for the future. The series has a clear international orientation - each volume is multilingual, containing German, English and French contributions and, depending on the volume, articles in Italian or Spanish as well. Each individual volume is peer reviewed by an international editorial board. Each year 2-4 volumes are published.
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