The Phonology of Danish

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-824268-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 624 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 1066 g

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 morphology-phonology interactions, and shows how these may be applied to Danish and to other languages.

Danish has an unusually rich vowel system and exhibits radical reduction processes that make it difficult for foreigners to understand. The sound pattern is equally challenging for the analyst. Professor Basbøll develops a non-circular model for the sonority syllable and applies it to Danish phonotactics. He presents a radically new and insightful analysis of stød, a syllable accent which has a complex grammatical distribution and is unique among the world´ s languages. He also describes syllabic and word structures, and stress and intonation.

The book is fully referenced and indexed. It will be widely welcomed by phonologists and scholars of Danish, and is likely to become the standard account of Danish phonology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Basbøll, Hans

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Phonetik, Phonologie, Prosodie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Part One: Introduction and Contrastive Units

- 1: Introduction

- 2: Segments, Prosodies and Letters

- Part Two: Distinctive Features and Segment Types

- 3: Distinctive Features and Major Classes

- 4: An Analysis in Binary Distinctive Features

- 5: r-processes and the Potentials of Multivalued Features

- Part Three: The Sonority Syllable and Phonotactics

- 6: Developing the Sonority Syllable Model

- 7: Phonotactics of the Monomorphemic Monosyllable

- 8: Extending the Phonotactic Description: polymorphemic monosyllables, and disyllables with schwa

- Part Four: Syllables, Schwa-Drop, and Prosody

- 9: The Syllable as domain of segmental phonology: consonant gradation and short /a, o/

- 10: Stod and Sound Structure: a moraic analysis

- 11: Schwa-assimilation and "productive stod-addition"

- 12: Stress Phonologically: prosodic and segmental prominence

- Part Five: Word Structure and Its Relation to Prosody

- 13: Systematically Graded Productivity of Endings (SGPE): a model for word structure and its implications for Danish phonology

- 14: Prosody of Simplex Lexemes: stod and stress

- 15: Prosody of Simplex Words: stod and stress in inflection

- 16: Prosody of Complex Words: stod and stress in word formation

- 17: Epilogue: from word to utterance

- Appendix

- References

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hans Basbøll is Professor of Scandinavian Linguistics at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense. He has published extensively on Danish and general phonology. His books include, with Johannnes Wagner, Kontrastive Phonologie des Deutschen und Dänischen (1985). He has served on the editorial boards of Phonology, Cognitive Linguistics, and Nordic Journal of Linguistics and directed projects on Danish children's language acquisition. In 1991 he was elected a Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.