Metrical Phonology

Metrical Phonology
Author: Richard M. Hogg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1987-03-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521316514

Introduces the theory of metrical phonology, one of the most exciting recent developments in linguistic theory.

Issues in Phonological Structure

Issues in Phonological Structure
Author: S.J. Hannahs
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 281
Release: 1999-12-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027299595

This volume contains revised, expanded and updated versions of papers originally presented at the International Workshop on Phonological Structure held at the University of Durham in September 1994. As the title suggests, the contributions focus on aspects of phonological structure, both segment internal and suprasegmental. A number of questions surrounding phonological structure are approached from a wide variety of theoretical standpoints, including the frameworks of prosodic phonology, declarative phonology, optimality theory, metrical phonology, government phonology, feature geometry, particle theory and dependency phonology. This range of viewpoints allows the crossfertilisation of various strands of phonological thinking with respect to many of the central issues concerning phonological structure. The empirical basis of the contributions is also wide-ranging, including among the languages dealt with Aranda, Cayuvava, English, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, and Spanish.

Metrical Phonology and Phonological Structure

Metrical Phonology and Phonological Structure
Author: Heinz J. Giegerich
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-04-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521106078

In this monograph, the first to be exclusively concerned with a model of phonological structure that is becoming increasingly influential, Heinz Giegerich pursues two major aims. First, he explores the theoretical foundations of 'metrical phonology' and in so doing suggests that the current model should be significantly simplified: auxiliary devices such as 'prosodic categories', ' metrical grids' and segmental stress features are shown to be unnecessary in this study. Secondly, he applies the model to a wide range of German and English data and in particular provides a detailed account of the stress patterns of German words - native and nonnative, morphologically simple and complex. The many similarities between German and English phonological structure are thereby strikingly illustrated. The book's clarity of exposition will enable readers not wholly familiar with metrical phonology to appreciate fully the elegance of this model in, arguably, its most basic form.

Phonological Structure and Phonetic Form

Phonological Structure and Phonetic Form
Author: Patricia A. Keating
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2006-02-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521024082

Phonological Structure and Phonetic Form brings together work from phonology, phonetics, speech science, electrical engineering, psycho- and sociolinguistics. The chapters are organized in four topical sections. The first is concerned with stress and intonation; the second with syllable structure and phonological theory; the third with phonological features; and the fourth with "phonetic output." This volume will be important in making readers aware of the range of research relevant to questions of linguistic sound structure.

The Phonological Spectrum: Suprasegmental structure

The Phonological Spectrum: Suprasegmental structure
Author: Jeroen Maarten van de Weijer
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2003
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781588113528

A comprehensive overview of current developments in phonological theory, by providing a number of papers in different areas of current theorizing which reflect on particular problems from different angles. This volume deals with phonological structure above the segmental level, in particular with syllable structure, metrical structure and sentence-level prosodic structure.

The Structure of Spoken Language

The Structure of Spoken Language
Author: Philippe Martin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2015-11-26
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1107036186

An innovative and unified grammar of sentence intonation, applied to six Romance languages (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan and Romanian).

The Phonological Structure of Words

The Phonological Structure of Words
Author: Colin J. Ewen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521359146

This book is designed to provide students of phonology with an accessible introduction to the phonological architecture of words. It offers a thorough discussion of the basic building blocks of phonology - in particular features, sounds, syllables and feet - and deals with a range of different theories about these units. Colin Ewen and Harry van der Hulst present their study within a non-linear framework, discussing the contributions of autosegmental phonology, dependency phonology, government phonology and metrical phonology, among others. Their coherent, integrated approach reveals that the differences between these models are not as great as is sometimes believed. The book provides a more detailed analysis of this subject than previously available in introductory textbooks and is an invaluable and indispensable first step towards understanding the major theoretical issues in modern phonology at the word level.