Fatal revolutions : natural history, West Indian slavery, and the routes of American literature / / Christopher P. Iannini

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463407903321
• Autore: Iannini Christopher P.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chapel Hill : , : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• ISBN: 0-8078-3818-7; 1-4696-0192-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (313 p.)
• Collana: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
• Disciplina: 972.9
• Soggetti: Natural history - West Indies; Slavery - West Indies - History - 18th century; Electronic books.; West Indies Intellectual life 18th century; West Indies History 18th century
• 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 index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations and Short Titles; Introduction; PART I. THE NATURE OF SLAVERY; 1 Strange Things, Occult Relations: Emblem and Narrative in Hans Sloane's: Voyage to . . . Jamaica; 2 Fatal Latitudes: The Poetics of West Indian "Improvement" in Mark Catesby's: Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands; PART II. REAPING THE EARLY REPUBLIC; 3 "The Itinerant Man": Crèvecoeur's Caribbean, Raynal's Revolution, and the Fate of Atlantic Cosmopolitanism; 4 "All the West- Indian Weeds": William Bartram's Travels and the Natural History of the Floridas5 Notes on the State of Virginia, the Haitian Revolution, and the Return of Epistolarity; 6 The Birds of America and the Specter of Caribbean Accumulation; EPILOGUE: Humboldt's Havana; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y
• Sommario/riassunto: Drawing on letters, illustrations, engravings, and neglected manuscripts, this book connects two dramatic transformations in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world - the emergence and growth of the Caribbean plantation system and the rise of natural science. It argues that these transformations were not only deeply interconnected, but that together they established conditions fundamental to the development of a distinctive literary culture in the early Americas.

The effects of duration and sonority on contour tone distribution : a typological survey and formal analysis / / Jie Zhang

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910789156403321
• Autore: Zhang Jie <1971->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-136-72176-2; 1-315-02413-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (293 p.)
• Collana: Outstanding dissertations in linguistics
• Disciplina: 414/.6
• Soggetti: Grammar, Comparative and general - Phonology; Tone (Phonetics)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "First published in 2002 by Routledge"--T.p. verso.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-276) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Original Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Background; 1.1 Two Examples of Contour Tone Distribution; 1.1.1 Contour Tones on Long Vowels Only; 1.1.2 Contour Tones on Stressed Syllables Only; 1.2 Questions Raised by the Examples; 1.3 How This Work Evaluates The Different Predictions; 1.3.1 A Survey of Contour Tone Distribution; 1.3.2 Instrumental Case Studies; 1.4 Putting Contour Tone Distribution in a Bigger Picture; 1.4.1 Phonetically-Driven Phonology; 1.4.2 Positional Prominence; 1.4.3 Competing Approaches to Positional Prominence1.5 Outline; 2 The Phonetics of Contour Tones; 2.1 Overview; 2.2 The Importance of Sonority for Contour Tone Bearing; 2.3 The Importance of Duration for Contour Tone Bearing; 2.4 The Irrelevance of Onsets to Contour Tone ; Bearing; 2.5 Local Conclusion; 3 Empirical Predictions of Different Approaches; 3.1 Overview; 3.2 Defining CONTOUR and Tonal Complexity; 3.3 Phonological Factors That Influence Duration and Sonority of the Rime; 3.4 Predictions of Contour Tone Distribution by Different Approaches; 3.4.1 The Direct Approach; 3.4.2 Contrast-Specific Positional Markedness3.4.3 General-Purpose Positional Markedness; 3.4.4 The Moraic Approach; 3.5 Local Conclusion; 4 The Role of Contrast-Specific Phonetics in Contour Tone Distribution: A Survey; 4.1 Overview of the Survey; 4.2 Segmental Composition; 4.2.1 General Observations; 4.2.2 Example Languages; 4.2.3 Local Conclusion: Segmental Effects; 4.3 Stress; 4.3.1 General Observations; 4.3.2 Example Languages; 4.3.3 Local Conclusion: Stress Effects; 4.4 Prosodic-Final Position; 4.4.1 General Observations; 4.4.2 Example Languages; 4.4.3 Local Conclusion: Final Effects; 4.5 Number of Syllables in the Word4.5.1 General Observations; 4.5.2 Example Languages; 4.5.3 Local Conclusion: Syllable Count Effects; 4.6 Other Distributional Properties and Exceptions; 4.6.1 Other Distributional Properties; 4.6.2 Durational Factors Not Reflected in the Contour Tone Survey; 4.6.3 Languages with No Clearly Documented Contour Tone Restrictions; 4.6.4 Exceptions; 4.7 Interim Conclusion; 4.8 Prospectus; 5 The Role of Language-Specific Phonetics in Contour Tone Distribution: Instrumental Studies; 5.1 Identifying Relevant Languages; 5.2 Instrumental Studies; 5.2.1 Xhosa; 5.2.2 Beijing Chinese5.2.3 Standard Thai; 5.2.4 Cantonese; 5.2.5 Navajo; 5.2.6 Somali; 5.3 Lama and Konni; 5.4 General Discussion; 6 Against Structure-Only Alternatives; 6.1 The Moraic Approach; 6.1.1 The Roles of the Mora in Phonology; 6.1.2 Advantages of Prosodic-Final Syllables and Syllables in Shorter Words; 6.1.3 Levels of Distinction; 6.1.4 Differences among Tones with the Same Number of Pitch Targets; 6.1.5 The Size of Tonal Inventory of Different Syllable Types; 6.1.6 Moraic Inconsistency; 6.1.7 Indirect Evidence: Diphthong Distribution; 6.1.8 Local Conclusion; 6.2 The Melody Mapping Approach
• Sommario/riassunto: First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.