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Tones and Features : Phonetic and Phonological Perspectives / ed. by John A. Goldsmith, Elizabeth Hume, Leo Wetzels.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] ; 107Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (369 p.) : Num. figsContent type:
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  • 9783110246216
  • 9783110246223
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 414.8 22/ger
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The representation and nature of tone -- Do we need tone features? -- Rhythm, quantity and tone in the Kinyarwanda verb -- Do tones have features? -- Features impinging on tone -- Downstep and linguistic scaling in Dagara-Wulé -- 2. The representation and nature of phonological features -- Crossing the quantal boundaries of features: Subglottal resonances and Swabian diphthongs -- Voice assimilation in French obstruents: Categorical or gradient? -- An acoustic study of the Korean fricatives /s, sʹ/: Implications for the features [spread glottis] and [tense] -- Autosegmental spreading in Optimality Theory -- Evaluating the effectiveness of Unified Feature Theory and three other feature systems -- Language-independent bases of distinctive features -- Representation of complex segments in Bulgarian -- Proposals for a representation of sounds based on their main acoustico-perceptual properties -- The representation of vowel height and vowel height neutralization in Brazilian Portuguese (Southern Dialects) -- Index
Summary: This volume includes papers by leading figures in phonetics and phonology on two topics central to phonological theory: tones and phonological features. Papers address a wide range of topics bearing on tones and features including their formal representation and phonetic foundation.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The representation and nature of tone -- Do we need tone features? -- Rhythm, quantity and tone in the Kinyarwanda verb -- Do tones have features? -- Features impinging on tone -- Downstep and linguistic scaling in Dagara-Wulé -- 2. The representation and nature of phonological features -- Crossing the quantal boundaries of features: Subglottal resonances and Swabian diphthongs -- Voice assimilation in French obstruents: Categorical or gradient? -- An acoustic study of the Korean fricatives /s, sʹ/: Implications for the features [spread glottis] and [tense] -- Autosegmental spreading in Optimality Theory -- Evaluating the effectiveness of Unified Feature Theory and three other feature systems -- Language-independent bases of distinctive features -- Representation of complex segments in Bulgarian -- Proposals for a representation of sounds based on their main acoustico-perceptual properties -- The representation of vowel height and vowel height neutralization in Brazilian Portuguese (Southern Dialects) -- Index

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This volume includes papers by leading figures in phonetics and phonology on two topics central to phonological theory: tones and phonological features. Papers address a wide range of topics bearing on tones and features including their formal representation and phonetic foundation.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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