Author: Margaret M. MarshallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Dialect of Notre-Dame-de-Sanilhac
Author: Margaret M. MarshallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
A natural generative phonological analysis of the dialect of Notre-Dame-de-Sanilhac
Author: Margaret M. MarshallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Dialect Variation and the Theory of Grammar
Author: Paola BenincáPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311086925X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
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Variation and Change in Gallo-Romance Grammar
Author: Sam WolfePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198840179
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
This volume offers a wide-range of case studies on variation and change in the sub-family of the Romance languages that includes French and Occitan: Gallo-Romance. Both standard and non-standard Gallo-Romance data can be of enormous value to studies of morphosyntactic variation and change, yet, as the volume demonstrates, non-standard and comparative Gallo-Romance data have often been lacking in both synchronic and diachronic studies. Following an introduction that sets out the conceptual background, the volume is divided into three parts whose chapters explore a variety of topics in the domains of sentence structure, the verb complex, and word structure. The empirical foundation of the volume is exceptionally rich, drawing on standard and non-standard data from French, Occitan, Francoproven�al, Picard, Wallon, and Norman. This diversity is also reflected in the theoretical and conceptual approaches adopted, which span traditional philology, sociolinguistics, formal morphological and syntactic theory, semantics, and discourse-pragmatics. The volume will thus be an indispensable tool for researchers and students in French and (Gallo-) Romance linguistics as well as for readers interested in grammatical theory, sociolinguistics, and historical linguistics.
The Production of Consonant Clusters
Author: Daniel RecasensPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110565722
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The book analyzes the articulatory motivation of several adaptation processes (place assimilations, blending, coarticulation) involving consecutive consonants in heterosyllabic consonant sequences within the framework of the degree of articulatory constraint model of coarticulation. It also shows that the homorganic relationship between two heterosyllabic consonants contributes to the implementation of manner assimilations, while heterorganicity as well as sonorancy and voicing in the syllable-onset C2 are key factors in the weakening of the syllable-coda C1. Experimental and descriptive evidence is provided with production, phonological and sound change data from several languages, and more especifically with tongue-to-palate contact and lingual configuration data for Catalan consonant sequences. The book also reviews critically research on the c-center effect in tautosyllabic consonant sequences which has been carried out during the last thirty years.
Lenition and Contrast
Author: Naomi GurevichPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135876487
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
This book analyzes 153 languages from a large variety of families to establish a previously unexplored relationship between phonetically conditioned sound changes such as lenitions and functional (meaning maintenance related) considerations. Carefully collecting numerous inventories of consonants, this collection is likely to become an important resource for future linguistics research. By distinguishing between phonetic and phonological neutralization, and showing that the first does not necessarily result in the second, Naomi Gurevich uncovers previously unexplored and often surprising trends in the relationship between phonetics and phonology.
An Effort Based Approach to Consonant Lenition
Author: Robert KirchnerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136710493
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The first serious typological survey of the lenition process in modern phonological literature.
Parameters and Universals
Author: Richard S. KaynePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195356217
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This is a collection of previously published essays on comparative syntax by the distinguished linguist Richard Kayne. The papers cover issues of comparative syntax as they are applied to French, Italian, and other Romance languages and dialects, together forming a strongly cohesive set that will be valuable to both scholars and students.
Vowel Prosthesis in Romance
Author: Rodney SampsonPublisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0199541159
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
This text presents a comparative, historical account of vowel prosthesis in the Romance languages. The author describes in detail the formal characteristics, historical trajectory, and likely causes of the different types of prosthesis operating in Romance.
Nasal Vowel Evolution in Romance
Author: Rodney SampsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780198238485
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Drawing on a wide range of philological and linguistic materials, Rodney Sampson provides for the first time a detailed comparative study tracing the rise and pattern of the evolution of nasal vowels in Romance; a family of language in which vowel nasalization has been richly represented. Developments across all the standard varieties and some non-standard varieties are considered, enabling broad characteristics of vowel nasalization in Romance to be identified.