Sound Structure in Language Edited and Introduced by Nina Grønnum, Frans Gregersen, and Hans Basbøll

by Rischel, Jørgen; Grønnum, Nina; Gregerson, Frans; Basbøll, Hans

• ISBN13: 9780199544349
• ISBN10: 0199544344
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-01-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Jorgen Rischel, who died in May 2007, was-at the time of his death-Professor of Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen. He was known internationally for his descriptive work on Greenlandic, his grammar of Minor Mlabri of Thailand, and his analyses of Danish phonology and morphology. He also wrote extensively on historical linguistics, the history of linguistics, linguistic fieldwork, phonology, and the links between linguistics and culture.
Nina Gronnum is senior lecturer in phonetics at the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen. The bulk of her research work is within Danish phonetics and phonology, particularly Danish intonation and Danish stod. She is responsible for the recently completed spontaneous speech corpus, DanPASS (Danish Phonetically Annotated Spontaneous Speech).
Frans Gregersen is the director of the Danish National Research Foundation LANCHART Centre focusing on language change in real time. He has worked on the sociolinguistics of Danish for thirty years and will continue to do so. He has also written on the history of linguistics and literacy.
Hans Basboll is Professor of Scandinavian Linguistics at the Institute of Language and Communication, University of Southern Denmark. He has worked extensively on the phonology and morphology of Danish, and on general phonology (in particular syllable structure and prosody). He has directed projects on Danish child language. His main publication is The Phonology of Danish (Oxford University Press 2005).

Table of Contents

Prerequisites and Analysis

Formal Linguistics and Real Speech

Consonant Gradation: A Problem in Danish Phonology and Morphology

On Functional Load in Phonemics

Derivation as a Syntactic Process in Greenlandic

Consonant Reduction in Faroese Noncompound Wordforms

Prosody

Stress, Juncture, and Syllabification in Phonemic Description

Is There Just One Hierarchy of Prosodic Categories?

Compound Stress in Danish Without a cycle

On Unit Accentuation in Danish - and the Distinction Between Deep and Surface Phonology

Morphemic Tone and Word Tone in Eastern Norwegian

Asymmetric Vowel Harmony in Greenlandic Fringe Dialects

Structural and Functional Aspects of Tone Split in Thai

Speech Sounds in History and Culture

A Note on Diachronic Data, Universals, and Research Strategies

Phoneme, Grapheme, and the "Importance" of Distinctions

Functional Aspects of the Scandinavian Runic Reform

A Unified Theory of Nordic i-umlaut, Syncope, and stod

Diphthongization in Faroese

Devoicing or Strengthening of Long Obstruents in Greenlandic

The Role of a "Mixed" Language in Linguistic Reconstruction

Typology and Reconstruction of Numeral Systems: The Case of Austroasiatic

The Mlabri Enigma: is Mlabri a Primary Hunter-Gatherer Language or the Result of an Ethnically and Socially Complex Founder Event?

Jorgen Rischel's Bibliography

References

Index

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