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The Phonology of Turkish
Av Öner Özçelik
Inbunden, 2024
1372 kr
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This book offers a comprehensive account of the phonological structure of modern Turkish within the framework of recent linguistic models. While phenomena at both the segmental and suprasegmental levels are discussed, the emphasis is on the latter, with analysis of phonological processes that …
The Phonology and Morphology of Kimatuumbi
Av David Odden
Inbunden, 1996
2800 kr
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As is typical of African languages, there is little published material on Kimatuumbi, a Bantu language spoken in Tanzania. The grammatical sketch and lexicon published by Krumm in 1912 give no indication of vowel length and tone which are two of the most interesting and complex phonological …
The Phonology of Portuguese
Av Maria Helena Mateus, Ernesto d'Andrade
Inbunden, 2000
3838 kr
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Portuguese emerged from vulgar Latin during the course of the third century. Influential in its development were successive invasions by Germanic peoples, Visigoths, and Moors, the latter of whom were finally evicted in the thirteenth century. As a consequence of the newly-independent kingdoms …
The Phonology of Armenian
Av Bert Vaux
Inbunden, 1998
3838 kr
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Armenian is geographically one of the most widespread languages of the world, with distinct dialects located as far west as Poland and as far east as India. It has a rich literary history dating from the fourth-century translation of the Bible into Classical Armenian. It is one of the most …
The Phonology of Norwegian
Inbunden, 2000
4782 kr
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A the end of the fourteenth century, Norway, having previously been an independent kingdom, became by conquest a province of Denmark and remained so for three centuries. In1814, as part of the fall-out from the Napoleonic wars, the country became a largely independent nation within the monarchy of …
The Phonology of Hungarian
Av Péter Siptár, Miklós Törkenczy
Inbunden, 2000
1828 kr
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This is the first comprehensive account of the phonology of Hungarian to have been published in English. Hungarian is a Uralic (Finno-Ugric) language. It is unlike other European languages, and atypical among the members of the Uralic family. The lexicon reflects the country's history, with the …
The Phonology of Dutch
Av Geert Booij
Häftad, 1999
687 kr
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In this, the first comprehensive survey of the phonological system of Dutch, Geert Booij lays particular stress on the relation between morphology, syntax, and prosodic structure at both word- and sentence-level. His primary aim is to provide an overview of the system as a whole, based in part on a …
The Lexical Phonology of Slovak
Av Jerzy Rubach
Inbunden, 1993
1771 kr
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This book has both a descriptive and a theoretical purpose. It is the first full phonological description of Slovak, a language spoken by some four-and-a-half million people in Central and Eastern Europe; and it is a study of the theories of lexical, autosegmental, and prosodic phonology, with a …
The Phonology of Danish
Av Hans Basbøll
Inbunden, 2005
2614 kr
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The book is the most comprehensive account of the phonology of Danish ever published in any language. It gives a clear analysis of the sound patterns of modern Danish and examines the relations between its speech sounds and grammar. The author develops new models for the analysis of phonology and …
The Phonology of German
Häftad, 2000
1280 kr
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In this book, Richard Wiese provides the most complete and up-to-date description presently available of the phonology of German. Starting with a presentation of phonemes and their features, the author then describes in detail syllables, higher prosodic units, phonological conditions of word …
The Phonology of English
A Prosodic Optimality-Theoretic Approach
Häftad, 1999
1129 kr
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The Phonology of English offers a new approach to English phonology. It focuses on the prosody of the language, i.e. syllable and foot structure, and does so from an optimality-theoretic (OT) perspective. The focus is on surface distributional regularities and the results presented are based on …
The Phonology of Chichewa
Av Laura J. Downing, Al Mtenje
Inbunden, 2017
2186 kr
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This book provides thorough descriptive and theory-neutral coverage of the full range of phonological phenomena of Chichewa, a Malawian Bantu language. Bantu languages have played and continue to play an important role as a source of data illustrating core phonological processes such as vowel …
The Phonology of Standard Chinese
Av San Duanmu
Inbunden, 2007
1790 kr
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This is a new and revised edition of the title first published by OUP in 2000. From the reviews of the first edition:'This book is a comprehensive study of the phonology of Standard Chinese. Not only is it rich in detailed and amazingly accurate factual description, it also proposes elegant …
The Phonology of Standard Chinese
Av San Duanmu
Häftad, 2007
1073 kr
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This is a new and revised edition of the title first published by OUP in 2000. From the reviews of the first edition:'This book is a comprehensive study of the phonology of Standard Chinese. Not only is it rich in detailed and amazingly accurate factual description, it also proposes elegant …
The Phonology and Morphology of Arabic
Häftad, 2007
1073 kr
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This book is the first comprehensive account of the phonology and morphology of Arabic. It is a pioneering work of scholarship based on the author's research in the region. Arabic is a Semitic language spoken by some 250 million people in an area stretching from Morocco in the West to parts of Iran …
The Phonology of Hungarian
Av Péter Siptár, Miklós Törkenczy
Häftad, 2007
898 kr
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This is the first comprehensive account of the segmental phonology of Hungarian in English. Part I introduces the general features of the language. Part II examines its vowel and consonant systems, and its phonotactics (syllable structure constraints, transsyllabic constraints, and morpheme …
The Phonology of Icelandic and Faroese
Inbunden, 2011
2800 kr
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This book presents a comprehensive, contrastive account of the phonological structures and characteristics of Icelandic and Faroese. It is written for Nordic linguists and theoretical phonologists interested in what the languages reveal about phonological structure and phonological change and the …
The Phonology of Norwegian
Häftad, 2007
981 kr
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This is a comprehensive account of the phonetic and phonological properties of Norwegian. The author considers the structure of the lexicon and the principles by which the ordering of sounds in Norwegian can be defined. He then discusses word phonology and its interaction with lexical structure; …
The Phonology of Portuguese
Av Maria Helena Mateus, Ernesto d'Andrade
Häftad, 2002
1091 kr
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Portuguese emerged from vulgar Latin during the course of the third century. Influential in its development were successive invasions by Germanic peoples, Visigoths, and Moors, the latter of whom were finally evicted in the thirteenth century. As a consequence of the newly-independent kingdom's …
The Phonology and Morphology of Arabic
Inbunden, 2002
5773 kr
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This book is the first comprehensive account of the phonology and morphology of Arabic. It is a pioneering work of scholarship, based on the author's research in the region. Arabic is a Semitic language spoken by some 250 million people in an area stretching from Morocco in the West to parts of …
The Phonology of Catalan
Inbunden, 2005
4074 kr
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This is the most comprehensive account of Catalan phonology ever published. Catalan is a Romance language, occupying a position somewhere between French, Spanish, and Italian. It is the first language of six and a half million people in the northeastern Spain and of the peoples of Andorra, French …
The Phonology of Mongolian
Av Jan-Olof Svantesson, Anna Tsendina m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
1241 kr
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This book provides (a) the first comprehensive description of the phonology and phonetics of Standard Mongolian, known as the Halh (Khalkha) dialect and spoken in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of the Republic of Mongolia; and (b) the first account in any language of the historical phonology of the …
The Phonology of Polish
Inbunden, 2007
3907 kr
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This book is the most complete phonology of contemporary Polish ever published. It is topic-oriented and presents the fundamental characteristics and problems associated with each topic, among them syllable structure, vowel-zero alternations, palatalizations, and other vowel and consonant changes. …
The Phonology of Italian
Inbunden, 2009
2658 kr
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This book provides an overview of the phonology of Italian. It covers the different levels of analysis from individual sounds up to the phrasal level. It focuses on the most widely dispersed features of the language reflecting its significant regional and social variation and its most prominent …
The Phonology of Japanese
Inbunden, 2012
2894 kr
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This book provides the fullest account of Japanese phonology ever published. At the same time it makes original contributions both to current understanding of the Japanese sound system and to contemporary phonological theory more generally. After a consideration of the history of linguistic …
The Phonology of Mongolian
Av Jan-Olof Svantesson, Anna Tsendina m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
938 kr
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This book provides the first comprehensive description of the phonology and phonetics of Standard Mongolian, known as the Halh (Khalkha) dialect and spoken in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of the Republic of Mongolia. It is also the first account in any language of the historical phonology of the entire …
The Phonology of Welsh
Inbunden, 2013
2422 kr
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This book is an up-to-date, comprehensive, and theoretically coherent account of the phonology of modern Welsh. It begins by describing the history of Welsh, its relation to the other Celtic languages and its phonetic inventory. Six chapters then explore the structures underlying its sound system. …
