Synchronic and Diachronic Approaches to Tonal Accent - Iosad, Pavel; Köhnlein, Björn; (ed.) - Prospero Internet Bookshop

 
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ISBN13:9780198877011
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No. of pages:320 pages
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Language:English
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Synchronic and Diachronic Approaches to Tonal Accent

 
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This volume explores tonal accent across a variety of the world's languages from both a synchronic and diachronic perspective. The chapters in this volume present and evaluate the current state of research in the field as well as outline directions for future research, based on novel and underused empirical data.

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This volume explores tonal accent across a variety of the world's languages from both a synchronic and diachronic perspective. Tonal accent lies at the heart of current debates on the typology of prosodic representations, one of the most controversial fields in contemporary phonological theory; the phenomenon is relevant to both word prominence and tone, but its status remains somewhat unclear. The chapters in this volume present and evaluate the current state of research in the field and demonstrate that the study of tonal accent can shed light on multiple important questions in phonology. They also outline directions for future research, based on novel and underused empirical data and on the principle of contextualizing different, language-specific research traditions within broader theoretical debates.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Word-prosodic constraints and bidialectalism in Basque
Context-specific tonoexodus in the dialect of Roermond
The interplay of lexical and intonational tones in Serbian
There is no 'one High tone per word' rule in Somali
Lexical accent and intonation in Peninsular North Germanic: Pragmatics, phonology, geography, history
A metrical analysis of prosodically-conditioned stem allomorphy in Uspanteko
Accents and how to get rid of them (or not)
Notes on theoretical approaches to tonal accent