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Author | : Brent de Chene |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2014-01-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1317933192 |
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Data from a variety of languages are offered in support of the claim that although there are several processes by which languages commonly add to an already existing stock of long vowels, there is only one mechanism by which a language without a distinction of vocalic length commonly introduces such a distinction. This mechanism is the coalescence of vowel sequences, typically after loss of intervocalic consonants. This book examines vowels lengths, their differences and their effects on language.
Author | : Brent Eugene De Chene |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Grammar, Comparative and general |
ISBN | : |
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Data from a variety of languages are offered in support of the claim that although there are several processes by which languages commonly add to an already existing stock of long vowels, there is only one mechanism by which a language without a distinction of vocalic length commonly introduces such a distinction. This mechanism is the coalescence of vowel sequences, typically after loss of intervocalic consonants. Conversely, it is argued that such coalescence always leads to the development of a length contrast unless the language is subject at the time of coalescence to a rule distributing length as a function of some other variable, typically stress. Development of a situation in which length is a function of stress is claimed, equally, to account for most cases of loss of a Jong-established length contrast. The chapter closes with a consideration of three cases in which surface contrasts of vowel length may be claimed to be the result of incipient phonologization of phonetically conditioned length.
Author | : Brent Eugene De Chene |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES |
ISBN | : 9781315857268 |
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Author | : Zhongwei Shen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2020-06-04 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1108774199 |
Download A Phonological History of Chinese Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A comprehensive account of the phonological history of Chinese, exploring the development of its standard phonological systems over the past 2500 years. It will be a key reference work for historical linguists and phonologists in general, as well as being of particular interest to students and scholars of Chinese/Asian languages and their history.
Author | : Michele Loporcaro |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2015-07-31 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0191630535 |
Download Vowel Length From Latin to Romance Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book investigates the changes that affected vowel length during the development of Latin into the Romance languages and dialects. In Latin, vowel length was contrastive (e.g. pila 'ball' vs. pila 'pile', like English bit vs. beat), but no modern Romance language has retained that same contrast. However, many non-standard Romance dialects (as well as French, up to the early 20th century) have developed novel vowel length contrasts, which are investigated in detail here. Unlike previous studies of this phenomenon, this book combines detailed historical evidence spanning three millennia (as attested by extant texts) with extensive data from present-day Romance varieties collected from first-hand fieldwork, which are subjected to both phonological and experimental phonetic analysis. Professor Loporcaro puts forward a detailed account of the loss of contrastive vowel length in late Latin, showing that this happened through the establishment of a process which lengthened all stressed vowels in open syllables, as in modern Italian casa ['ka:sa]. His analysis has implications for many of the most widely-debated issues relating to the origin of novel vowel length contrasts in Romance, which are also shown to have been preserved to different degrees in different areas. The detailed investigation of the rise and fall of vowel length in dozens of lesser-known (non-standard) varieties is crucial in understanding the development of this aspect of Romance historical phonology, and will be of interest not only to researchers and students in comparative Romance linguistics, but also, more generally, to phonologists and those interested in historical linguistics beyond the Latin-Romance language family.
Author | : Marc Picard |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780773511712 |
Download Principles and Methods in Historical Phonology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Arapaho, a western Algonkian language, is still spoken on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. Phonologically modern Arapaho looks very "un-Algonkian," for it has undergone a rather startling number of sound changes. In this study Marc Picard attempts to use the phonological history of Arapaho as a vehicle to explore various possibilities for making accurate inferences about the chronological order of sound changes. His ultimate goal is to provide a methodology that can be applied successfully to other languages that, like Arapaho, have no recorded history.
Author | : Kristján Árnason |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008-12-11 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521103831 |
Download Quantity in Historical Phonology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The study of syllable quantity and vowel length raises issues of considerable importance for phonology and historical linguistics in general. Among Indo-European languages, the phonological structure of Modern Icelandic is of particular interest because of the so-called 'quantity shift', which is part of its historical background and which changed the inherited Old Icelandic structure. In this rich case-study Dr Arnason analyses the changes that led to the shift, using among other things the metrical works as evidence. He shows that in Modern Icelandic vowel length is determined by syllabic quantity, which is in turn defined by stress. Close attention is paid to related phenomena in other languages and, against this comparative background, Dr Arnason calls into question the validity and theoretical status of existing 'explanations' of linguistic change. This is then a study for those interested in Scandinavian languages but it has wider theoretical implications for all historical linguists.
Author | : Donka Minkova |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2013-12-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0748677550 |
Download Historical Phonology of English Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book covers the historical development of the English phonological system from its earliest reconstructed and recorded forms to its most recent variations.
Author | : Charles Jones |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2016-07-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 131550412X |
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This is an attempt to view historical phonological change as an ongoing, recurrent process. The author sees like events occurring at all periods, a phenomenon which he considers is disguised by too great a reliance upon certain characteristics of the scholarly tradition. Thus he argues that those innovations arrived at by speakers of the English language many years ago are not in principle unlike those that can be seen to be happening today. Phonological mutations are, on the whole, not to be regarded as unique, novel, once only events. Speakers appear to present to speech sound materials, a limited set of evaluative and decoding perceptions, together with what would seem to be a finite number of innovation producing stratagems in response to their interpretation. It is stressed that this interpretation may itself be a direct product of the kinds of data selected for presentation in traditional handbooks and Jones notes the fact that phonological change is often "messy" and responsive to a highly tuned ability to perceive fine phonetic detail of a type which, by definition, rarely has the opportunity to surface in historical data sources.
Author | : Kristján Árnason |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1980-11-13 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521230407 |
Download Quantity in Historical Phonology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The study of syllable quantity and vowel length raises issues of considerable importance for phonology and historical linguistics in general. Among Indo-European languages, the phonological structure of Modern Icelandic is of particular interest because of the so-called 'quantity shift', which is part of its historical background and which changed the inherited Old Icelandic structure. In this rich case-study Dr Arnason analyses the changes that led to the shift, using among other things the metrical works as evidence. He shows that in Modern Icelandic vowel length is determined by syllabic quantity, which is in turn defined by stress. Close attention is paid to related phenomena in other languages and, against this comparative background, Dr Arnason calls into question the validity and theoretical status of existing 'explanations' of linguistic change. This is then a study for those interested in Scandinavian languages but it has wider theoretical implications for all historical linguists.