Japanese Language and Literature
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 590
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Loan Phonology
Author: Andrea Calabrese
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2009-11-30
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9027288968
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor many different reasons, speakers borrow words from other languages to fill gaps in their own lexical inventory. The past ten years have been characterized by a great interest among phonologists in the issue of how the nativization of loanwords occurs. The general feeling is that loanword nativization provides a direct window for observing how acoustic cues are categorized in terms of the distinctive features relevant to the L1 phonological system as well as for studying L1 phonological processes in action and thus to the true synchronic phonology of L1. The collection of essays presented in this volume provides an overview of the complex issues phonologists face when investigating this phenomenon and, more generally, the ways in which unfamiliar sounds and sound sequences are adapted to converge with the native language’s sound pattern. This book is of interest to theoretical phonologists as well as to linguists interested in language contact phenomena. As of January 2019, this e-book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched.
Japanese Pidgin English in Hawaii
Author: 名柄迪
Publisher: [Honolulu] : University Press of Hawaii
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 352
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Handbook of English Linguistics
Author: Bas Aarts
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 826
ISBN-13: 140517840X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Handbook of English Linguistics is a collection ofarticles written by leading specialists on all core areas ofEnglish linguistics that provides a state-of-the-art account ofresearch in the field. Brings together articles from the core areas of Englishlinguistics, including syntax, phonetics, phonology, morphology, aswell as variation, discourse, stylistics and usage Written by specialists from around the world Provides an introduction to a key area of English Linguisticsand includes a discussion of the most recent theoretical anddescriptive research, as well as extensive bibliographicreferences
The Oxford Handbook of Historical Phonology
Author: Patrick Honeybone
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 817
ISBN-13: 0199232814
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis critical overview examines every aspect of the field including its history, key current research questions and methods, theoretical perspectives, and sociolinguistic factors. The authors represent leading proponents of every theoretical perspective. The book is a valuable resource for phonologists and a stimulating guide for their students.
Highly Complex Syllable Structure
Author: Shelece Easterday
Publisher: Saint Philip Street Press
Published: 2020-10-09
Total Pages: 612
ISBN-13: 9781013294563
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe syllable is a natural unit of organization in spoken language whose strongest cross-linguistic patterns are often explained in terms of a universal preference for the CV structure. Syllable patterns involving long sequences of consonants are both typologically rare and theoretically marginalized, with few approaches treating these as natural or unproblematic structures. This book is an investigation of the properties of languages with highly complex syllable patterns. The two aims are (i) to establish whether these languages share other linguistic features in common such that they constitute a distinct linguistic type, and (ii) to identify possible diachronic paths and natural mechanisms by which these patterns come about in the history of a language. These issues are investigated in a diversified sample of 100 languages, 25 of which have highly complex syllable patterns. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
The Handbook of Historical Linguistics
Author: Brian Joseph
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 904
ISBN-13: 0470756330
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Handbook of Historical Linguistics provides a detailed account of the numerous issues, methods, and results that characterize current work in historical linguistics, the area of linguistics most directly concerned with language change as well as past language states. Contains an extensive introduction that places the study of historical linguistics in its proper context within linguistics and the historical sciences in general Covers the methodology of historical linguistics and presents sophisticated overviews of the principles governing phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic change Includes contributions from the leading specialists in the field
Aryan and Non-Aryan in India
Author: Madhav Deshpande
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1979-01-01
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 0891480145
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history and mechanisms of the convergence of ancient Aryan and non-Aryan cultures has been a subject of continuing fascination in many fields of Indology. The contributions to Aryan and Non-Aryan in India are the fruit of a conference on that topic held in December 1976 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, under the auspices of the Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies. The express object of the conference was to examine the latest findings from a variety of disciplines as they relate to the formation and integration of a unified Indian culture from many disparate cultural and ethnic elements.
The Synchronic and Diachronic Phonology of Ejectives
Author: Paul D. Fallon
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-16
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 1136712526
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study is the first book-length examination of ejectives and their phonological patterning, deepening the empirical understanding of ejectives and contributing to both phonological theory and to typologies of sound change.
Optimality Theory
Author: Joost Dekkers (linguiste)
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 656
ISBN-13: 9780198238447
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOptimality theory has revolutionized phonological theory, and its insights are now being applied to other central aspects of language. This book presents the results of research as applied to syntax/language acquisition, as well as considering the main lines of attack by rule-based grammarians.
