428 Pages
by
Routledge
428 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
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Routledge
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The book is the first systematic exploration of a series of phonological phenomena previously thought to be unified under the rubric of syllable weight. Drawing on a typological survey of 400 languages, it is shown that the traditional conception that languages are internally consistent in their weight criteria across weight-based processes is not corroborated by the cross-linguistic survey.... Read more
Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. The Typology of Weight Chapter 3. Weight-sensitive Tone Chapter 4. Weight-sensitive Stress Chapter 5. Other Weight-sensitive Phenomena Chapter 6. Conclusions
Biography
Matthew Gordon is an Associate Professor in the Linguistics Department at University of California, Santa Barbara. He has published a number of articles dealing with topics related to the interface between phonetics and phonology, stress and intonation, and the phonetic documentation of endangered languages.
