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Author: Laura J. Downing
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 0198724748
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides thorough descriptive and atheoretical coverage of the full range of phonological phenomena of Chichewa, a Malawian Bantu language. It covers topics such as vowel harmony, nasal place assimilation, postnasal laryngeal alternations, tonal phenomena, prosodic morphology, and the phonology-syntax interface.
Author: Sam Mchombo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-10-14
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780521573788
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis comprehensive book provides a detailed description of the major syntactic structures of Chichewa. Assuming no prior knowledge of current theory, it covers topics such as relative clause and question formation, interactions between tone and syntactic structure, aspects of clause structure such as complementation, and phonetics and phonology. It also provides a detailed account of argument structure, in which the role of verbal suffixation is examined. Sam Mchombo's description is supplemented by observations about how the study of African languages, specifically Bantu languages, has contributed to progress in grammatical theory, including the debates that have raged within linguistic theory about the relationship between syntax and the lexicon, and the contributions of African linguistic structure to the evaluation of competing grammatical theories. Clearly organised and accessible, The Syntax of Chichewa will be an invaluable resource for students interested in linguistic theory and how it can be applied to a specific language.
Author: Sharon Inkelas
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1990-05-08
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780226381015
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of papers deals with the inter relatedness of syntax and phonology and, more generally, with the issue of interaction among the components of linguistic structure.
Author: Kristján Árnason
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2011-08-25
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 0199229317
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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 relation between morphology, phonology, and phonetics. The book is divided into five parts. In the first Professor Árnason provides the theoretical and historical context of his investigation. Icelandic and Faroese originate from the West-Scandinavian or Norse spoken in Norway, Iceland and part of the Scottish Isles at the end of the Viking Age. The modern spoken languages are barely intelligible to each other and, despite many common phonological characteristics, exhibit differences that raise questions about their historical and structural relation and about phonological change more generally. Separate parts are devoted to synchronic analysis of the sounds of the languages, their phonological oppositions, syllabic structure and phonotactics, lexical morphophonemics, rhythmic structure, intonation and postlexical variation. The book draws on the author's and others' published work and presents the results of original research in Faroese and Icelandic phonology.
Author: Francis Katamba
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 132
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Moira Yip
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-08-15
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 1139433423
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe sounds of language can be divided into consonants, vowels, and tones - the use of pitch to convey word meaning. Seventy percent of the world's languages use pitch in this way. Assuming little or no prior knowledge of the topic, this textbook provides a clearly organized introduction to tone and tonal phonology. Comprehensive in scope, it examines the main types of tonal systems found in Africa, the Americas, and Asia, using examples from the widest possible range of tone languages. It provides students with a basic grasp of the simple phonetics of tone, and covers key topics such as the distinctive feature systems suitable for tonal contrasts, allophonic and morphophonological tonal alterations, and how to analyze them within Optimality Theory. The book also examines the perception and acquisition of tone, as well as the interface between tonal phonology and the morphosyntax.
Author: Laura J. Downing
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2016-11-07
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 3110503522
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume brings together two under-investigated areas of intonation typology. While tone languages make up to 70 percent of the world’s languages, only few have been explored for intonation. And even though one third of the world’s languages are spoken in Africa, and most sub-Saharan languages are tone languages, recent collections on tone and intonation typology have almost entirely ignored African languages. This book aims to fill this gap.
Author: Laura J. Downing
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780191792281
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides thorough descriptive and theory-neutral coverage of the full range of phonological phenomena of Chichewa, a Malawian Bantu language. It covers topics such as vowel harmony, nasal place assimilation, postnasal laryngeal alternations, tonal phenomena, prosodic morphology, and the phonology-syntax interface.
Author: Carlos Gussenhoven
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2021-01-07
Total Pages: 957
ISBN-13: 0198832230
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis handbook presents detailed accounts of current research in all aspects of language prosody, written by leading experts from different disciplines. The volume's comprehensive coverage and multidisciplinary approach will make it an invaluable resource for all researchers, students, and practitioners interested in prosody.
Author: Laurence Labrune
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-02-16
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 0199545839
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis account of the phonology of Japanese and its major dialects presents original analyses of every aspect of the Japanese sound system, including its segment inventory, prosodic units, mora and syllable, prosody, and accent.
