By Matthew Gordon
ISBN-10: 020394402X
ISBN-13: 9780203944028
ISBN-10: 041597609X
ISBN-13: 9780415976091
The publication is the 1st systematic exploration of a chain of phonological phenomena formerly considered unified below the rubric of syllable weight. Drawing on a typological survey of four hundred languages, it's proven that the normal notion that languages are internally constant of their weight standards throughout weight-based approaches isn't corroborated by means of the cross-linguistic survey. instead of being constant throughout phenomena inside of person languages, weight seems to be delicate to the actual approaches concerned such that varied phenomena show diverse distributions in weight standards. The booklet is going directly to discover the motivations at the back of the process-specific nature of weight, displaying that phonetic elements clarify a lot of the difference in weight standards among phenomena and in addition the difference in standards among languages for a unmarried procedure. The ebook is not like different stories in combining an in depth typological survey with special phonetic research of many languages. The discovering that the generally studied phenomenon of syllable weight isn't a unified phenomenon, opposite to the proven view, is an important outcome for the sphere of theoretical phonology. The e-book is additionally an immense contribution to the sphere of phonetically-driven phonology, because it establishes an in depth hyperlink among the phonology of weight and numerous quantitative phonetic parameters.
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Note crucially that the term “reduced vowels” in the context of weight refers to underlying short central vowels and not to vowels that have undergone post-stress reduction, as for example occurs in English. e. all closed syllables and open syllables containing a full vowel are heavy), is found in five languages. Three languages (Kwakw’ala, Nuuchahnulth, and Inga Quechua) treat both long vowels and syllables closed by a sonorant as heavy. Another language, Orya, treats syllables closed by a sonorant preceding another sonorant as heavy.
Syllables that do not contain branching nuclei may not support a contour tone, since tone units cannot be associated with coda consonants and more than one tone may not link to a single timing position. 2. Skeletal slot representations of weight-sensitive tone The Typology of Weight 31 There are certain complicating issues that arise in the discussion of tonal restrictions of this sort. First, many languages have independent restrictions on syllable structure that preclude evaluation of the weight status of certain syllable types.
Thirteen languages appear to lack contour tones completely. An additional language, Khmu, lacks contour tones, but nevertheless makes a tonal weight distinction: the only syllables preceding the root that may carry tones are those containing a sonorant. Khmu is thus included among those with weight-sensitive tone. This leaves 37 languages that allow contour tones on all syllable types. A large number of these languages (17) have an impoverished syllable structure, either lacking coda consonants completely or limiting them to sonorants or to glottal stop.
Syllable Weight: Phonetics, Phonology, Typology by Matthew Gordon
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