Max W Wheeler

The Phonology of Catalan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Approaching the subject a pragmatic version of orthodox "Optimality Theory", this book describes the Spanish and French dialects of Catalan and the social and stylistic variations within them. This is the most comprehensive account of Catalan phonology.

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This is the most comprehensive account of Catalan phonology ever published. Approaching the subject a pragmatic version of orthodox Optimality Theory it describes the Spanish and French dialects of Catalan and the social and stylistic variations within them. This is likely to be the standard account of its subject for many years.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 735g
• ISBN-13: 9780199258147
• ISBN-10: 0199258147
• Artikelnr.: 24806694

Autorenporträt

Max Wheeler is Reader in Linguistics at the University of Sussex where his research focuses on phonology, and on change in inflectional morphology. He is joint editor of the electronic Journal of Catalan Studies. He is co-author with Alan Yates and Nicolau Dols of Catalan: A Comprehensive Grammar (1999).

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: Phonological Primitives and Segment Inventories
3: Syllable Structure
4: Phrasal Phonology: Vowel Sandhi
5: Coda Obstruent Voicing Neutralization and Assimilation
6: Coda Place and Manner Assimilation and Neutralization
7: Cluster Reduction
8: Epenthesis
9: Stress, Feet, and Phrases
10: Word Phonology and Phonologically Conditioned Allomorphy
11: The Syllabification of Pronominal Clitics
12: Bibliography