Sound Structure in Language: Edited and Introduced by Nina Grønnum, Frans Gregersen, and Hans Basbøll (Oxford Linguistics)

This book presents Jørgen Rischel's most important work on language and sound structure. It includes some of the most original and groundbreaking research of four decades. The chapters focus on stress, syllabification, accent, and vowel harmony, and their interactions with other aspects of language. They include exemplary descriptions of the sound systems of a wide range of languages, cover both synchronic and diachronic analysis, and reflect the authors lifelong interest in typology. The book will interest phonologists, phoneticians, and language typologists throughout the world. Contents......Page 6 Introduction......Page 8 Acknowledgements......Page 22 PART I. PREREQUISITES AND ANALYSIS......Page 24 1. Formal Linguistics and Real Speech......Page 26 2. Consonant Gradation: A Problem in Danish Phonology and Morphology......Page 49 3. On Functional Load in Phonemics......Page 67 4. Derivation as a Syntactic Process in Greenlandic......Page 77 5. Consonant Reduction in Faroese Noncompound Wordforms......Page 87 PART II. PROSODY......Page 106 6. Stress, Juncture, and Syllabification in Phonemic Description......Page 108 7. Is There Just One Hierarchy of Prosodic Categories?......Page 119 8. Compound Stress in Danish without a Cycle......Page 126 9. On Unit Accentuation in Danish—and the Distinction Between Deep and Surface Phonology......Page 139 10. Morphemic Tone and Word Tone in Eastern Norwegian......Page 190 11. Asymmetric Vowel Harmony in Greenlandic Fringe Dialects......Page 198 12. Structural and Functional Aspects of Tone Split in Thai......Page 234 PART III. SPEECH SOUNDS IN HISTORY AND CULTURE......Page 266 13. A Note on Diachronic Data, Universals, and Research Strategies......Page 268 14. Phoneme, Grapheme, and the ‘Importance’ of Distinctions. Functional Aspects of the Scandinavian Runic Reform......Page 277 15. A Unified Theory of Nordic i-umlaut, Syncope, and Stød......Page 295 16. Diphthongization in Faroese......Page 335 17. Devoicing or Strengthening of Long Obstruents in Greenlandic......Page 366 18. The Role of a ‘Mixed’ Language in Linguistic Reconstruction......Page 379 19. Typology and Reconstruction of Numeral Systems: The Case of Austroasiatic......Page 392 20. The Mlabri Enigma: Is Mlabri a Primary Hunter-Gatherer Language or the Result of an Ethnically and Socially Complex Founder Event?......Page 431 Jørgen Rischel’s Bibliography......Page 464 References......Page 480 F......Page 498 M......Page 499 Z......Page 500 C......Page 502 D......Page 503 I......Page 504 M......Page 505 O......Page 506 P......Page 507 S......Page 508 T......Page 509 V......Page 510 Y......Page 511 "This book presents Jorgen Rischel's most important work on language and sound structure. It includes some of the most original and groundbreaking research of four decades. The articles focus on stress, syllabification, accent, and vowel harmony, and their interactions with other aspects of language. They include exemplary descriptions of the sound systems of a wide range of languages, cover both synchronic and diachronic analysis, and reflect the author's lifelong interest in typology. The book will interest phonologists, phoneticians, and language typologists throughout the world."--Résumé de l'éditeur "This book presents Jorgen Rischel's most important work on language and sound structure. It includes some of the most original and groundbreaking research of four decades. The articles focus on stress, syllabification, accent, and vowel harmony, and their interactions with other aspects of language. They include exemplary descriptions of the sound systems of a wide range of languages, cover both synchronic and diachronic analysis, and reflect the author's lifelong interest in typology. The book will interest phonologists, phoneticians, and language typologists throughout the world."--BOOK JACKET