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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826118603321

Titolo

The Syllable : views and facts / / edited by Harry van der Hulst, Nancy A. Ritter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York : , : M. de Gruyter, , 1999

ISBN

3-11-174792-1

3-11-080679-7

Edizione

[Reprint 2012]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (808 p.)

Collana

Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] ; ; 45

Studies in generative grammar ; ; 45

Classificazione

ET 215

Altri autori (Persone)

HulstHarry van der

RitterNancy A. <1959->

Disciplina

414

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Syllable

Syllabication

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Chiefly revised papers originally presented at the International Conference on the Phonology of the World's Languages, June 21-24, 1996, Pézenas, France, and sponsored by the University of Salford, Oxford University Press, and the city of Pézenas.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Contents -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introducing the volume / Hulst, Harry van der / Ritter, Nancy A. -- Part I: General Issues -- 2 Theories of the syllable / Hulst, Harry van der / Ritter, Nancy A. -- 3 Morpheme structure constraints and the phonotactics of Dutch / Booij, Geert -- 4 Syllables in Danish / Basboll, Hans -- 5 The syllable in Hindi / Ohala, Manjari -- Part II: Government Phonology -- 6 Head-Driven Phonology / Hulst, Harry van der / Ritter, Nancy A. -- 7 The syllable in German: Exploring an alternative / Brockhaus, Wiebke -- 8 Consonant clusters and governing relations: Polish initial consonant sequences / Cyran, Eugeniusz / Gussmann, Edmund -- 9 Hungarian syllable structure: Arguments for/against complex constituents / Törkenczy, Miklós / Siptár, Péter -- 10 The Latin syllable / Marotta, Giovanna -- 11 Syllables in Western Koromfe / Rennison, John R. -- Part III: Moraic Phonology -- 12 The syllable in Luganda phonology and morphology / Hyman, Larry M. / Katamba, Francis X. -- 13 Kihehe syllable structure / Odden, David / Odden, Mary -- 14 Dschang syllable structure / Bird,



Steven -- 15 The syllable in Chinese / Duanmu, San -- 16 The syllable and syllabification in Modern Spoken Arabic (Ṣancānī and Cairene) / Watson, Janet C.E. -- 17 The Romansch syllable / Montreuil, Jean-Pierre -- Part IV: Optimality Theory -- 18 Syllables and phonotactics in Irish / Chiosáin, Maire Ni -- 19 A preliminary account of some aspects of Leurbost Gaelic syllable structure / Smith, Norval -- 20 Quantity in Norwegian syllable structure / Kristoffersen, Gjert -- Part V: Other approaches -- 21 A syllable-level feature in Finnish / Ogden, Richard -- 22 Sievers' Law in Vedic / Calabrese, Andrea -- Indexes -- Index of authors -- Index of languages -- Index of subjects -- Backmatter