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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785826703321

Titolo

Development in prosodic systems [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Paula Fikkert, Haike Jacobs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2003

ISBN

3-11-089453-X

Edizione

[Reprint 2011]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (472 p.)

Collana

Studies in generative grammar ; ; 58

Classificazione

ES 400

Altri autori (Persone)

FikkertJohanna Paula Monique <1965->

JacobsHaike <1961->

Disciplina

414/.6

Soggetti

Prosodic analysis (Linguistics)

Historical linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction / Jacobs, Haike / Fikkert, Paula -- The relationship between tone and vowel length in two neighboring Dutch Limburgian dialects / Heijmans, Linda -- Prosodic change in progress: from quantity language to accent language / Lehiste, Ilse -- Prosodic change from tone to vowel length in Korean / Kwon, Kyung-Keun -- Diachrony of the Scandinavian accent typology / Riad, Tomas -- Kaluza's Law and the progress of Old English metrics / Cable, Thomas -- Middle English stress doubles: New evidence from Chaucer's meter / Redford, Michael -- Constraining S and satisfying fit / Zonneveld, Wim -- From phrase-final to post-initial accent in western Basque / Hualde, José Ignacio -- Swiss German vowel length through time / Kraehenmann, Astrid -- The prosodic structure of prefixed words in the history of West Germanic / Fikkert, Paula -- Left-hand word-stress in the history of English / McCully, Chris -- Why preantepenultimate stress in Latin requires an OT-account / Jacobs, Haike -- From prosody to place: The development of prosodic contrasts into place of articulation contrast in the history of Miogliola / Ghini, Mirco -- Language index -- Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

This book brings together papers on various aspects of prosodic development from a generative linguistic perspective. It addresses issues such as the relationship between tone, stress and quantity, the



evidence for prosodic change from metrics and discusses the role of analogy, language contact, and language acquisition in change. The unique combination of different methodologies and perspectives investigating development in prosodic systems provides a new and broader scope on historical linguistics.