New PDF release: Syllable Structure: The Limits of Variation (Oxford

By San Duanmu

ISBN-10: 0199267596

ISBN-13: 9780199267590

ISBN-10: 019958110X

ISBN-13: 9780199581108

This ebook appears on the variety of attainable syllables in human languages. The syllable is a valuable thought in phonology yet easy questions on it stay poorly understood and phonologists are divided on even the main undemanding matters. for instance, the notice city has been syllabified as ci-ty (the 'maximal onset' analysis), cit-y (the 'no-open-lax-V' analysis), and cit-ty (the 'geminate C' analysis).

San Duanmu explores and clarifies those and plenty of different similar matters via an in-depth research of complete lexicons of numerous languages. a few languages, akin to general and Shanghai chinese language, have particularly uncomplicated syllables, but a minimum distinction in syllable constitution has bring about a dramatic distinction in tonal habit. different languages, similar to English, German, and Jiarong, have lengthy consonant clusters and feature been inspiration to require very huge syllables: San Duanmu indicates that the particular syllable constitution in those languages is way easier. He bases his analyses on quantitative facts, paying equivalent consciousness to generalizations which are prone to be common. He indicates winning research of the syllable needs to have in mind numerous theories, together with function conception, the Weight-Stress precept, the scale of morpheme stock, and the metrical illustration of the syllable.

San Duanmu's transparent exposition will entice phonologists and complicated scholars and may supply a brand new benchmark in syllabic and prosodic research. He additionally bargains a solution to the interesting query: how diversified can human languages be?

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