Goldsmith / Hume / Wetzels Tones and Features

Phonetic and Phonological Perspectives
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-3-11-024622-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 107, 381 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]

This volume includes papers by leading figures in phonetics and phonology on two topics central to phonological theory: tones and phonological features. Papers address a wide range of topics bearing on tones and features including their formal representation and phonetic foundation.

Zielgruppe

Research Libraries, Researchers and Advanced Students with an Int

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goldsmith, John A.

Hume, Elizabeth

Wetzels, Leo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Phonetik, Phonologie, Prosodie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;7
2;1. The representation and nature of tone;13
2.1;Do we need tone features?;15
2.2;Rhythm, quantity and tone in the Kinyarwanda verb;37
2.3;Do tones have features?;62
2.4;Features impinging on tone;93
2.5;Downstep and linguistic scaling in Dagara-Wulé;120
3;2. The representation and nature of phonological features;147
3.1;Crossing the quantal boundaries of features: Subglottal resonances and Swabian diphthongs;149
3.2;Voice assimilation in French obstruents: Categorical or gradient?;161
3.3;An acoustic study of the Korean fricatives /s, s'/: implications for the features [spread glottis] and [tense];188
3.4;Autosegmental spreading in Optimality Theory;207
3.5;Evaluating the effectiveness of Unified Feature Theory and three other feature systems;235
3.6;Language-independent bases of distinctive features;276
3.7;Representation of complex segments in Bulgarian;304
3.8;Proposals for a representation of sounds based on their main acoustico-perceptual properties;318
3.9;The representation of vowel features and vowel neutralization in Brazilian Portuguese (southern dialects);343
4;Index;373

Über Autor(innen)

John A. Goldsmith, University of Chicago, USA; Elisabeth Hume, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA; Leo Wetzels, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France.