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The contextualization of language
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ISBN: 9027250340 1556192908 9027285926 9786613092755 1283092751 Year: 1992 Volume: 22 Publisher: Amsterdam : Benjamins,

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This volume suggests a novel treatment of context in the analysis of everyday interaction. On a theoretical level, it advocates a switch of focus from 'context' as a preestablished, monolithic category which constringes co-participants' verbal and nonverbal behaviour, to an active notion of 'contextualization': in order to make oneself understood, participants have to establish and maintain those shared contextual frames which in turn are relevant to the local interpretation of their verbal and nonverbal activities. On an empirical level, the volume contains exemplary analyses that show how pa


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Segmental structure and tone
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ISBN: 9783110341096 3110341093 9783110341263 3110341263 3110377497 9783110377491 9783110341270 Year: 2018 Publisher: Berlin Boston De Gruyter

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This volume seeks to reevaluate the nature of tone-segment interactions in phonology. The contributions address, among other things, the following basic questions: what tone-segment interactions exist, and how can the facts be incorporated into phonological theory? Are interactions between tones and vowel quality really universally absent? What types of tone-consonant interactions do we find across languages? What is the relation between diachrony and synchrony in relevant processes?The contributions discuss data from various types of languages where tonal information plays a lexically distinctive role, from ‘pure’ tone languages to so-called tone accent systems, where the occurrence of contrastive tonal melodies is restricted to stressed syllables. The volume has an empirical emphasis on Franconian dialects in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, but also discusses languages as diverse as Slovenian, Livonian, Fuzhou Chinese, and Xhosa.

Word prosodic systems in the languages of Europe
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ISBN: 3110157500 9786612193668 128219366X 3110197081 9783110197082 9783110157505 9781282193666 6612193662 Year: 1999 Volume: 20/4

The prosody-morphology interface
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ISBN: 0521621089 0521153417 0511627726 0511838492 Year: 1999 Publisher: Cambridge, UK New York, NY Cambridge University Press

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In many languages, word-formation is restricted by principles of prosody that organise speech into larger units such as the syllable. Written by an international team of leading linguists in the field of prosodic morphology, this 1999 book examines a range of key issues in the interaction of word-formation and prosody. It provides an explanation for non-concatenative morphology which occurs in different forms (such as reduplication) in many languages, by an interaction of independent general principles of prosodic and morphological well-formedness. Surveying developments in the field from the 1970s, the book describes the general transition in linguistic theory from rule-based approaches into constraint-based ones, and most of the contributions are written from the perspective of Optimality Theory, a rapidly developing theory of constraint interaction in generative grammar.

The acquisition of prosodic structure in a second language
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ISBN: 3484303042 1306292948 3111715256 Year: 1993 Volume: 304 Publisher: Tübingen Niemeyer

Historische Veränderungen prosodischer Strukturen : Analysen im Licht der nichtlineare Phonologie
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ISBN: 3484304006 3110911361 Year: 1999 Volume: 400 Publisher: Tübingen Max Niemeyer Verlag

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Dieses Buch enthält die exemplarische Anwendung nichtlinearer Modelle auf drei Phänomenbereiche der Historischen Phonologie: Verners Gesetz, die mittelenglische Vokallängung sowie Vokaldehnungen und -kürzungen vom Mittelhochdeutschen zum Neuhochdeutschen. (1) Der in Verners Gesetz beschriebene Stimmtonwechsel bei Obstruenten vom Indogermanischen zum Germanischen wird im Rahmen des Merkmalhierarchiemodells als Ausbreitung eines laryngalen Merkmals unter prosodischen Bedingungen repräsentiert. (2) Die mittelenglische Vokallängung wird als Anpassung an eine kanonische Minimalstruktur für metrische Füße dargestellt. (3) Die Vokaldehnungen und -kürzungen vom Mittelhochdeutschen zum Neuhochdeutschen werden in ihrem Kern auf das Wirken des Weight Law zurückgeführt, das von einer universal präferierten Silbenstruktur mit zwei Reimpositionen ausgeht. Alle drei diachronen Prozesse unterliegen prosodischen Beschränkungen, die im Rahmen der Autosegmentalen und Metrischen Phonologie adäquat erfaßbar sind.

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