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ISSN 2213-8706 | E‑ISSN 2213‑8714
Constructions in Contact 3: Constructional schemas and patterns in language contact
Edited by Hans C. Boas and Steffen Höder
Over the last decade, Construction Grammar has become increasingly popular in the study of language contact and multilingualism. Indeed, constructional approaches, including Diasystematic Construction Grammar, not only offer a useful theoretical framework for empirical studies, but also provide a… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 40] 2025. viii, 325 pp.
The Making of Multi-Unit Turns: A spring-loaded door
Rod Gardner, Joe Blythe, Ilana Mushin, Lesley Stirling, Josua Dahmen, Caroline de Dear and Francesco Possemato
The Making of Multi-Unit Turns is the first book-length treatment to comprehensively describe extended turns produced by a single speaker. It draws on multiparty everyday conversations in English, using the methods of Conversation Analysis. It brings together the currently scattered literature on… read more[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 38] 2025. xix, 378 pp.
Perspectives on Chinese Language Acquisition
Edited by Henghua Su
Special issue of International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 12:2 (2025) v, 170 pp.
English Prosody in First and Second Language Speakers: A contrastive interlanguage analysis across intonational dimensions
Karin McClellan
Discover the intricate dynamics of L2 prosody with this pioneering study, which examines how advanced learners from Czech, German, and Spanish backgrounds engage with British and American English intonation. By employing a multidimensional approach - spanning phonetic, phonological,… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 120] 2024. xix, 296 pp.
Intonation in Language Contact: The case of Spanish in Catalonia
Jonas Grünke
The intense language contact between Spanish and Catalan in Catalonia has led to cross-linguistic influence at all linguistic levels, but its effect on the prosody of these languages has received little attention to date. Based on semi-spontaneous and read speech data from 31 Catalan–Spanish… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 286] 2024. ix, 427 pp.
The Unit of Processing in Chinese
Edited by Tianlin Wang
Special issue of International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 11:1 (2024) v, 149 pp.
On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader
William J. Ashby
This scholarly edition invites us to reconsider our assumptions about the French language, by showcasing the oeuvre of one of the pioneers of diachronic Spoken French corpus linguistics, William J. Ashby, and the ground-breaking findings to come out of his influential Tours corpora (1976 & 1995),… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 226] 2023. xiv, 534 pp.
The Evolution of Pronunciation Teaching and Research: 25 years of intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness
Edited by John M. Levis, Tracey M. Derwing and Murray J. Munro
Inspired by Murray Munro and Tracey Derwing’s 1995 seminal study of intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness, this book revisits the insights of their original research and presents subsequent studies extending this work to new ways of understanding second language speech. By rejecting… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 121] 2022. v, 234 pp.
Sound–Emotion Interaction in Poetry: Rhythm, Phonemes, Voice Quality
Reuven Tsur † and Chen Gafni
This book is a collection of studies providing a unique view on two central aspects of poetry: sounds and emotive qualities, with emphasis on their interactions. The book addresses various theoretical and methodological issues related to topics like sound symbolism, poetic prosody, and voice… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 39] 2022. xv, 448 pp.
English Pronunciation Instruction: Research-based insights
Edited by Anastazija Kirkova-Naskova, Alice Henderson and Jonás Fouz-González
English Pronunciation Instruction: Research-based insights presents recent research on L2 English pronunciation including pedagogical implications and applications, and seeks to bridge the gulf between pronunciation research and teaching practice. The volume’s 15 chapters cover a range of aspects… read more[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 19] 2021. xix, 388 pp.
Pragmatics of Accents
Edited by Gaëlle Planchenault and Livia Poljak
What impact do accents have on our lives as we interact with one another? Are accents more than simple sets of phonetic features that allow us to differentiate from one dialect, variety or style, to the other? What power relationships are at work when we speak with what those around us perceive as… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 327] 2021. vii, 266 pp.
Tone Orthography and Literacy: The voice of evidence in ten Niger-Congo languages
Edited by David Roberts and Stephen L. Walter
This book presents the results of a series of literacy experiments in ten Niger-Congo languages, representing four language families and spanning five countries. It asks the research question, "To what extent does full tone marking contribute to oral reading fluency, comprehension and writing… read more[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 18] 2021. xxii, 375 pp.
25 years of Intelligibility, Comprehensibility and Accentedness
Edited by John M. Levis, Tracey M. Derwing and Murray J. Munro
Special issue of Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 6:3 (2020) vi, 234 pp.
In Search of Basic Units of Spoken Language: A corpus-driven approach
Edited by Shlomo Izre'el, Heliana Mello, Alessandro Panunzi and Tommaso Raso
What is the best way to analyze spontaneous spoken language? In their search for the basic units of spoken language the authors of this volume opt for a corpus-driven approach. They share a strong conviction that prosodic structure is essential for the study of spoken discourse and each bring their… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 94] 2020. xi, 440 pp.
Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in Contact: Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain
Edited by Rajiv Rao
Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in Contact: Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain brings together scholars working on a wide range of aspects of the Spanish sound system and how their coexistence with another language in speech communities across the Hispanophone world influences their… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 28] 2020. x, 452 pp.
Ideophones, Mimetics and Expressives
Edited by Kimi Akita and Prashant Pardeshi
This volume explores new frontiers in the linguistic study of iconic lexemes known as ideophones, mimetics, and expressives. A large part of the literature on this long-neglected word class has been dedicated to the description of its sound symbolism, marked morphophonology, and grammatical status… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 16] 2019. ix, 325 pp.
Lexicalization patterns in color naming: A cross-linguistic perspective
Edited by Ida Raffaelli, Daniela Katunar and Barbara Kerovec
The volume presents sixteen chapters focused on lexicalization patterns used in color naming in a variety of languages. Although previous studies have dealt with categorization and perceptual salience of color terms, few studies have been consistently conducted in order to investigate phonological,… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 78] 2019. vi, 429 pp.
Rhapsodie: A prosodic and syntactic treebank for spoken French
Edited by Anne Lacheret-Dujour, Sylvain Kahane and Paola Pietrandrea
This monograph describes the development of Rhapsodie, a 33,000-word syntactic and prosodic treebank of spoken French created with the aim of modeling the interface between prosody, syntax and discourse in spoken French. Theoretical foundations and methodological choices are presented and… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 89] 2019. xv, 396 pp.
The Development of Prosody in First Language Acquisition
Edited by Pilar Prieto and Núria Esteve-Gibert
Prosodic development is increasingly recognized as a fundamental stepping stone in first language acquisition. Prosodic sensitivity starts developing very early, with newborns becoming attuned to the prosodic properties of the ambient language, and it continues to develop during childhood until… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 23] 2018. vi, 368 pp.
Information Structure in Lesser-described Languages: Studies in prosody and syntax
Edited by Evangelia Adamou, Katharina Haude and Martine Vanhove
The articles compiled in this volume offer new insights into the wealth of prosodic and syntactic phenomena involved in the encoding of information structure categories. They present data from languages which are rarely, if ever, taken into account in the most prominent approaches in information… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 199] 2018. vi, 450 pp.
Substance-based Grammar – The (Ongoing) Work of John Anderson
Edited by Roger Böhm and Harry van der Hulst
The contributions of this volume centre around the (ongoing) work of John Anderson, Professor Emeritus at the University of Edinburgh and Fellow of the British Academy, who, with detailed studies in phonology, morphology, semantics and syntax as well as careful discussions of historical and… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 204] 2018. vii, 443 pp.
Beyond Markedness in Formal Phonology
Edited by Bridget D. Samuels
In recent years, an increasing number of linguists have re-examined the question of whether markedness has explanatory power, or whether it is a phenomenon that begs explanation itself. This volume brings together a collection of articles with a broad range of critical viewpoints on the notion of… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 241] 2017. xii, 237 pp.
Sonic Signatures: Studies dedicated to John Harris
Edited by Geoff Lindsey and Andrew Nevins
Sonic Signatures is devoted to the representation of sound patterns and sound structures across a diverse range of typologically distinct languages with the overall aim of understanding the nature of linguistic data structures from a principled balance between representational economy and the… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 14] 2017. x, 322 pp.
Syllable Weight in African Languages
Edited by Paul Newman
Syllable weight is a crucially important concept in the fields of phonology and morphology. It impacts analyses and explanation whether theoretical, typological, or descriptive. African linguistics was critical in the original development of the concept and, as this book demonstrates, the concept… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 338] 2017. x, 219 pp.
The Acquisition of L2 Mandarin Prosody: From experimental studies to pedagogical practice
Chunsheng Yang
This book examines the acquisition of L2 Mandarin prosody, a less explored area in SLA. While acknowledging that tone acquisition is one of the most important aspects in acquiring L2 Mandarin phonology, the book demonstrates that phrase- and utterance-level prosody is equally important.… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 1] 2016. xviii, 175 pp.
Intonation Units Revisited: Cesuras in talk-in-interaction
Dagmar Barth-Weingarten
Intonation units have been notoriously difficult to identify in natural talk. Problems include fuzzy boundaries, lack of exhaustivity, and the potential circularity involved when studying their interface with other language-organizational dimensions. This volume advocates a way to resolve such… read more[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 29] 2016. xviii, 318 pp.
Linguistic Rhythm and Literacy
Edited by Jenny Thomson and Linda Jarmulowicz
The intersection of sound processing, speech production, and literacy is a promising and growing area of study. This volume showcases recent empirical research exploring the association between linguistic rhythm and reading. Linguistic rhythm does not easily assume a single definition, which is… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 17] 2016. xiv, 286 pp.
Nasals and Nasalization in Spanish and Portuguese: Perception, phonetics and phonology
C. Elizabeth Goodin-Mayeda
Nasality, whether part of a consonant or vowel, has certain phonetic and phonological characteristics that lead to outcomes seen time and again in languages with and without common ancestries. Spanish and Portuguese constitute a particularly fruitful language pairing for studying phonological… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 9] 2016. x, 115 pp.
Outside the Clause: Form and function of extra-clausal constituents
Edited by Gunther Kaltenböck, Evelien Keizer and Arne Lohmann
This volume brings together a number of articles on the form and function of extra-clausal constituents, a group of linguistic elements which have puzzled linguists by defying analysis in terms of ordinary sentence grammar. Given their high frequency and communicative importance, these elements… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 178] 2016. vi, 450 pp.
Sequential Voicing in Japanese: Papers from the NINJAL Rendaku Project
Edited by Timothy J. Vance and Mark Irwin
The papers in this tightly focused collection all report recent research on aspects of rendaku (‘sequential voicing’), the well-known morphophonemic phenomenon in Japanese that affects initial consonants of non-initial elements in complex words (mostly compounds). The papers include… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 176] 2016. ix, 279 pp.
Textplicating Iconophones: Articulatory iconic action in Ulysses
Nurit Levy
This volume applies a sign-oriented approach to the description of articulatory and acoustic iconic phenomena in James Joyce’s Ulysses. In its hypothesis, the greater the role of sensory experience in the message of a text, the more likely it is to employ linguistic representation in articulated… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 72] 2016. xvii, 333 pp.
Iconicity: East meets West
Edited by Masako K. Hiraga, William J. Herlofsky, Kazuko Shinohara and Kimi Akita
Iconicity: East Meets West presents an intersection of East-West scholarship on Iconicity. Several of its chapters thus deal with Asian languages and cultures, or a comparison of world languages. Divided into four categories: general issues; sound symbolism and mimetics; iconicity in literary… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 14] 2015. x, 279 pp.
Phonological and Phonetic Considerations of Lexical Processing
Edited by Gonia Jarema and Gary Libben †
The human ability to understand and produce spoken words is fascinating in its complexity. People often vary in how they pronounce a word. They may need to recognize words spoken with an accent quite different from their own. And, in order to understand a word of a second or foreign language, they… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 80] 2015. ix, 233 pp.
Pronunciation Fundamentals: Evidence-based perspectives for L2 teaching and research
Tracey M. Derwing and Murray J. Munro
The emergence of empirical approaches to L2 pronunciation research and teaching is a powerful fourth wave in the history of the field. Authored by two leading proponents of evidence-based instruction, this volume surveys both foundational and cutting-edge empirical work and pinpoints its… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 42] 2015. xiii, 208 pp.
The Phonetics–Phonology Interface: Representations and methodologies
Edited by Joaquín Romero and María Riera
This volume is a collection of advanced laboratory phonology research papers concerned with the interaction between the physical and the mental aspects of speech and language. The traditional linguistic theoretic distinction between phonetics and phonology is put to the test here in a series of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 335] 2015. xxi, 288 pp.
Above and Beyond the Segments: Experimental linguistics and phonetics
Edited by Johanneke Caspers, Yiya Chen, Willemijn Heeren, Jos Pacilly, Niels O. Schiller and Ellen van Zanten
Above and Beyond the Segments presents a unique collection of experimental linguistic and phonetic research. Mainly, it deals with the experimental approach to prosodic, and more specifically melodic, aspects of speech. But it also treats segmental phonetics and phonology, second language… read more[Not in series, 189] 2014. xii, 363 pp.
Coarticulation and Sound Change in Romance
Daniel Recasens
This volume should be of great interest to phoneticians, phonologists, and both historical and cognitive linguists. Using data from the Romance languages for the most part, the book explores the phonetic motivation of several sound changes, e.g., glide insertions and elisions, vowel and consonant… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 329] 2014. xi, 207 pp.
The Form of Structure, the Structure of Form: Essays in honor of Jean Lowenstamm
Edited by Sabrina Bendjaballah, Noam Faust, Mohamed Lahrouchi and Nicola Lampitelli
This volume brings together articles by some major figures in various linguistics domains — phonology, morphology and syntax — aiming at explaining the form of linguistic items by exploring the structures that underlie them.The book is divided in 5 parts: vowels, syllables, templates,… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 12] 2014. vii, 377 pp.
Perspectives on Phonological Theory and Development: In honor of Daniel A. Dinnsen
Edited by Ashley W. Farris-Trimble and Jessica A. Barlow
Any theory of phonology must be able to account for the acquisition and development of a phonological system, and studying acquisition often leads to reciprocal advances in the theory. This volume explores the link between phonological theory and linguistic development from a variety of angles,… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 56] 2014. viii, 256 pp.
Spoken Corpora and Linguistic Studies
Edited by Tommaso Raso and Heliana Mello
The authors of this book share a common interest in the following topics: the importance of corpora compilation for the empirical study of human language; the importance of pragmatic categories such as emotion, attitude, illocution and information structure in linguistic theory; and a passionate… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 61] 2014. vii, 498 pp.
Prosody and Humor
Edited by Salvatore Attardo, Manuela Maria Wagner and Eduardo Urios-Aparisi
This is the first-ever book-length collection of articles on the subject of prosody and humor. The chapters are written by the recognized leaders in the field and present the cutting edge of the research in this new interdisciplinary field of study. The book covers a broad range of languages, using… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 55] 2013. v, 192 pp.
The Regularity of the 'Irregular' Verbs and Nouns in English
Elena Even-Simkin and Yishai Tobin
This volume presents an in-depth study of the so-called irregular Past Tense (sing/sang) and Noun Plural (foot/feet) forms with Internal Vowel Alternation (IVA) in English demonstrating that they possess both a fixed phonological and semantic regularity. The innovative sign-oriented analysis and… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 66] 2013. xvii, 273 pp.
The Syntax–Prosody Interface: A cartographic perspective with evidence from Italian
Giuliano Bocci
This book presents an experimental and theoretical investigation of the interplay between information structure, word order alternations, and prosody in Italian. Left/right dislocations, focus fronting, and other reordering phenomena are analyzed, taking into account their morphosyntactic and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 204] 2013. ix, 213 pp.
The Initiation of Sound Change: Perception, production, and social factors
Edited by Maria-Josep Solé and Daniel Recasens
The origins of sound change is one of the oldest and most challenging questions in the study of language. The goal of this volume is to examine current approaches to sound change from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives, including articulatory variation and modeling, speech… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 323] 2012. x, 250 pp.
Phonological Variation in French: Illustrations from three continents
Edited by Randall Gess, Chantal Lyche and Trudel Meisenburg
This volume presents a selection of French varieties representing the great diversity of this language along geographical, social, and stylistic dimensions. Twelve illustrations from regions as far removed as Western Canada and Central Africa represent widely divergent social contexts of language… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 11] 2012. vii, 397 pp.
Phonological Variation in Rural Jamaican Schools
Véronique Lacoste
This book investigates variation in the classroom speech of 7-year-old children who are learning Standard Jamaican English as a second language variety in rural Jamaica. For sociolinguists and second language/dialect researchers interested in the acquisition and use of sociolinguistic variables, an… read more[Creole Language Library, 42] 2012. xiv, 293 pp.
Swiss German Intonation Patterns
Adrian Leemann
Switzerland is renowned for having a diverse linguistic and dialectal landscape in a comparatively small and confined space. Possibly, this is one of the reasons why Swiss German dialects have been investigated thoroughly on various linguistic levels. Nevertheless, natural speech intonation has,… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 10] 2012. xv, 331 pp.
Intonational Phrasing in Romance and Germanic: Cross-linguistic and bilingual studies
Edited by Christoph Gabriel and Conxita Lleó
Languages differ regarding both the ways they group words into phrases and the surface cues they use to indicate relevant phrasing patterns. Modeling intonation in as many languages as possible has become a central goal of theoretical and empirical linguistics. However, intonational research has… read more[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 10] 2011. viii, 237 pp.
Linguistic Theory and Empirical Evidence
Edited by Bob de Jonge and Yishai Tobin
This volume further elaborates the empirical tradition of Columbia School (CS) Linguistics by offering diverse empirical analyses for a wide variety of languages. These studies open a much needed debate advocating the necessity of the independent validation of linguistic hypotheses. This research… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 64] 2011. vi, 299 pp.
Loanwords in Japanese
Mark Irwin
Loanwords in Japanese is the first monograph in a Western language to offer a systematic and coherent overview of the vast number of words borrowed into Japanese since the mid-16th century. Its publication is timely given the fact that the loanword stratum’s recent exponential growth has given rise… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 125] 2011. xix, 276 pp.
Where Do Phonological Features Come From?: Cognitive, physical and developmental bases of distinctive speech categories
Edited by G. Nick Clements and Rachid Ridouane
This volume offers a timely reconsideration of the function, content, and origin of phonological features, in a set of papers that is theoretically diverse yet thematically strongly coherent. Most of the papers were originally presented at the International Conference "Where Do Features Come From?"… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 6] 2011. xv, 347 pp.
Austronesian and Theoretical Linguistics
Edited by Raphael Mercado, Eric Potsdam and Lisa deMena Travis
The Austronesian language family is the largest language family in the world, yet its members are relatively little studied, particularly from a formal perspective. Interestingly, because these languages exhibit typologically unusual properties, they pose important challenges to linguistic theory.… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 167] 2010. vii, 379 pp.
Consonant Structure and Prevocalization
Natalie Operstein
This monograph proposes a new interpretation of the intrasegmental structure of consonants and provides the first systematic intra- and cross-linguistic study of consonant prevocalization. The proposed model represents consonants as inherently bigestural and makes strong predictions that are… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 312] 2010. x, 234 pp.
Prosody in Interaction
Edited by Dagmar Barth-Weingarten, Elisabeth Reber and Margret Selting
Prosody is constitutive for spoken interaction. In more than 25 years, its study has grown into a full-fledged and very productive field with a sound catalogue of research methods and principles. This volume presents the state of the art, illustrates current research trends and uncovers potential… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 23] 2010. xxi, 406 pp.
Sentential Form and Prosodic Structure of Catalan
Ingo Feldhausen
This monograph presents an experimental and theoretical inquiry into the role of sentential form and variation in the prosodic structure of Catalan. The empirical section examines intonational phrasing across sentence forms, including SVO structures with either nominal or sentential objects and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 168] 2010. xiii, 285 pp.
Loan Phonology
Edited by Andrea Calabrese and W. Leo Wetzels
For many different reasons, speakers borrow words from other languages to fill gaps in their own lexical inventory. The past ten years have been characterized by a great interest among phonologists in the issue of how the nativization of loanwords occurs. The general feeling is that loanword… read more
Phonetics and Phonology: Interactions and interrelations
Edited by Marina Vigário, Sónia Frota and M. João Freitas
The papers included in the volume Phonetics and Phonology: Interactions and interrelations are concerned with some of the multiple possible forms of interactions and interrelations in phonetics and phonology: the phonetic and/or phonological nature of speech patterns, segmental and prosodic… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 306] 2009. vi, 290 pp.
Towards a Typology of Poetic Forms: From language to metrics and beyond
Edited by Jean-Louis Aroui and Andy Arleo
Metrics is often defined as a discipline that concerns itself with the study of meters. In this volume the term is used in a broader sense that more or less coincides with the traditional notion of “versification”. Understood this way, metrics is an eminently complex object that displays variation… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 2] 2009. xiv, 428 pp.
The Grammar of Repetition: Nupe grammar at the syntax–phonology interface
Jason Kandybowicz
Displacement is a fundamental property of grammar. Typically, when an occurrence moves it is pronounced in only one environment. This was previously viewed as a primitive/irreducible property of grammar. Recent work, however, suggests that it follows from principled interactions between the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 136] 2008. xiii, 168 pp.
The Left Periphery: The interaction of syntax, pragmatics and prosody in Czech
Anne Sturgeon
This study of the interaction of syntax, pragmatics, and prosody in left peripheral positions focuses on two left dislocation constructions in Czech, Hanging Topic Left Dislocation and Contrastive Left Dislocation. The structure of the left periphery is delineated through a thorough description and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 129] 2008. xi, 143 pp.
Phonology: A cognitive grammar introduction
Geoffrey S. Nathan
This textbook introduces the reader to the field of phonology, from allophones to faithfulness and exemplars. It assumes no prior knowledge of the field, and includes a brief review chapter on phonetics. It is written within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics, but covers a wide range of… read more[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice, 3] 2008. x, 171 pp.
Phonology and Second Language Acquisition
Edited by Jette G. Hansen Edwards and Mary L. Zampini
This volume is a collection of 13 chapters, each devoted to a particular issue that is crucial to our understanding of the way learners acquire, learn, and use an L2 sound system. In addition, it spans both theory and application in L2 phonology. The book is divided into three parts, with each… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 36] 2008. vi, 380 pp.
Reduced Parenthetical Clauses as Mitigators: A corpus study of spoken French, Italian and Spanish
Stefan Schneider
While parentheticals attract constant attention, they very rarely constitute the main subject of monographs. This book provides a comprehensive account of reduced parenthetical clauses (RPCs) in three Romance languages. Typical French RPCs are je crois, disons, je dirais, je pense, je sais pas, and… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 27] 2007. xiv, 237 pp.
Segmental and prosodic issues in Romance phonology
Edited by Pilar Prieto, Joan Mascaró and Maria-Josep Solé
This volume is a collection of cutting-edge research papers written by well-known researchers in the field of Romance phonetics and phonology. An important goal of this book is to bridge the gap between traditional Romance linguistics — with its long and rich tradition in data collection,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 282] 2007. xvi, 262 pp.
Voicing in Dutch: (De)voicing – phonology, phonetics, and psycholinguistics
Edited by Jeroen van de Weijer and Erik Jan van der Torre
This volume focuses on the phonology, phonetics and psycholinguistics of voicing-related phenomena in Dutch. Dutch phonology has played a touchstone role in the past few decades where competing phonological theories regarding laryngeal representation have been concerned. Debates have focused on the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 286] 2007. x, 186 pp.
The Chinese Rime Tables: Linguistic philosophy and historical-comparative phonology
Edited by David Prager Branner
This book, the first in its field in a Western language, examines China’s native phonological tool with regard to reconstruction, theory, and linguistic philosophy.After an introductory essay on the nature of the tables and the history of their interpretation, the book concentrates on three areas:… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 271] 2006. viii, 358 pp.
English with a Latin Beat: Studies in Portuguese/Spanish–English Interphonology
Edited by Barbara O. Baptista and Michael Alan Watkins
Although it has long been recognized that second language pronunciation is strongly influenced by the native language, second language phonology has only become a recognized area of study during the last thirty years. While English has been the most frequent target language involved, the learners'… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 31] 2006. vi, 214 pp.
Hindi
Yamuna Kachru
This book presents the structure of Hindi keeping in view the sociolinguistic context of language use. It includes descriptions of sounds, devices of word formation, rules of phrase and sentence construction and conventions of language use in spoken and written texts incorporating the insights… read more[London Oriental and African Language Library, 12] 2006. xxi, 309 pp.
New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Vol. I: Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics; Vol. II: Phonetics, Phonology and Dialectology. 2 Vols. set. Selected papers from the 35th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Austin, Texas, February 2005
Edited by Jean-Pierre Y. Montreuil and Chiyo Nishida
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 275-276] 2006. 525 pp.
New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Vol. II: Phonetics, Phonology and Dialectology. Selected papers from the 35th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Austin, Texas, February 2005
Edited by Jean-Pierre Y. Montreuil
This is the second of two volumes emanating from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held at the University of Texas at Austin in February 2005. It features the keynote addresses delivered by Prof. Jacques Durand on the Phonology of Contemporary French Project and Prof. John Charles Smith… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 276] 2006. x, 213 pp.
Optimality-Theoretic Studies in Spanish Phonology
Edited by Fernando Martínez-Gil and Sonia Colina
This outstanding volume offers the first comprehensive collection of optimality-theoretic studies in Spanish phonology. Bringing together most of the best-known researchers in the field, it presents a state-of-the-art overview of research in Spanish phonology within the non-derivational framework… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 99] 2006. viii, 564 pp.
Prosody and Syntax: Cross-linguistic perspectives
Edited by Yuji Kawaguchi, Ivan Fónagy and Tsunekazu Moriguchi
This collection of papers is the third volume of the series “Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics” (UBLI), a product of the 21st Century COE Program of the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS). Prosody, as used in this text, appears in units larger than segments and generally refers to the… read more[Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics, 3] 2006. v, 383 pp.
Athabaskan Prosody
Edited by Sharon Hargus and Keren Rice
This collection of articles on stress and tone in various Athabaskan languages will interest theoretical linguists and historically oriented linguists alike. The volume brings to light new data on the phonetics and/or phonology of prosody (stress, tone, intonation) in various Athabaskan languages,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 269] 2005. xii, 432 pp.
Headhood, Elements, Specification and Contrastivity: Phonological papers in honour of John Anderson
Edited by Philip Carr, Jacques Durand and Colin J. Ewen
The papers in this volume focus on notions which are central to the work of John M. Anderson – the founder of Dependency Phonology – and to phonological theory: the idea of structural analogy between phonology and syntax; the head/dependent relation; the idea that phonological representations are… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 259] 2005. xxviii, 405 pp.
Syntax and Lexis in Conversation: Studies on the use of linguistic resources in talk-in-interaction
Edited by Auli Hakulinen and Margret Selting
This volume is a collection of current work at the interface of linguistics and conversation analysis. The focus is on linguistic items in their action contexts: syntactic structures and lexical items in data from natural conversations in six European languages: Danish, English, Finnish, German,… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 17] 2005. viii, 406 pp.
Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Romance Linguistics: Selected papers from the 34th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Salt Lake City, March 2004
Edited by Randall Gess and Edward J. Rubin
The 20 papers in this volume are a selection from those presented at the 34th LSRL, held in Salt Lake City, in 2004. The papers deal with a wide range of theoretical issues in Romance Linguistics and include several from the conference parasession, which focused on experimental approaches to… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 272] 2005. viii, 367 pp.
New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Selected papers from 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21–26 August 2002. Volume II: Lexis and Transmission
Edited by Christian Kay, Carole Hough and Irené Wotherspoon
This is the second of two volumes of papers selected from those given at the 12th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics. The first is New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics (1): Syntax and Morphology. Together the volumes provide an overview of many of the issues… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 252] 2004. xii, 271 pp.
New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Selected papers from 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21–26 August 2002. Volume I: Syntax and Morphology Volume II: Lexis and Transmission
Edited by Christian Kay
Together these two volumes provide an overview of many of the issues that are currently engaging practitioners in the field of English historical linguistics. In the first volume, the primary concern is with the historical grammar of English. Some papers take a broad overview of the subject,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 251-252] 2004. 559 pp.
Principles of Generative Phonology: An introduction
John T. Jensen
Principles of Generative Phonology is a basic, thorough introduction to phonological theory and practice. It aims to provide a firm foundation in the theory of distinctive features, phonological rules and rule ordering, which is essential to be able to appreciate recent developments and discussions… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 250] 2004. xii, 324 pp.
Spanish Phonology and Morphology: Experimental and quantitative perspectives
David Eddington
Unlike most monographs on Spanish phonology and morphology that approach these topics from a structuralist or generativist framework, this volume is written from a less traditional point of view. More specifically, it emphasizes quantitative evidence from sources such as usage-based studies,… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 53] 2004. xvi, 198 pp.
Asymmetry in Grammar: 2 Volumes (set)
Edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo
Volume I, Syntax and Semantics of Asymmetry in Grammar brings to fore the centrality of asymmetry in DP, VP and CP. A finer grained articulation of the DP is proposed, and further functional projections for restrictive relatives, as well as a refined analyses of case identification and presumptive… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 57-58] 2003. vi, 405 pp. & vi, 309 pp.
Asymmetry in Grammar: Volume 2: Morphology, phonology, acquisition
Edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo
Asymmetry in Grammar: Morphology, Phonology and Acquisition presents evidence that asymmetry, as a property of linguistic relations, is salient in grammar. The papers in morphology bring further evidence for the centrality of asymmetry in word-structure. It is shown that asymmetry is part of the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 58] 2003. vi, 309 pp.
The Development of Prosodic Structure in Early Words: Continuity, divergence and change
Mitsuhiko Ota
This monograph addresses three basic questions regarding the development of word-internal prosodic structure: How much of the phonological structure of early words is regulated by the same constituents and principles that govern the organization of prosodic structure of mature grammar? Why do early… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 34] 2003. xii, 224 pp.
The Phonological Spectrum: Volume I: Segmental structure
Edited by Jeroen van de Weijer, Vincent J. van Heuven and Harry van der Hulst
The two volumes of the Phonological Spectrum aim at giving a comprehensive overview of current developments in phonological theory, by providing a number of papers in different areas of current theorizing which reflect on particular problems from different angles. Volume I is concerned with… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 233] 2003. x, 306 pp.
The Phonological Spectrum: Volume II: Suprasegmental structure
Edited by Jeroen van de Weijer, Vincent J. van Heuven and Harry van der Hulst
The two volumes of the Phonological Spectrum aim at giving a comprehensive overview of current developments in phonological theory, by providing a number of papers in different areas of current theorizing which reflect on particular problems from different angles. Volume II deals with phonological… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 234] 2003. x, 262 pp.
The Phonological Spectrum: 2 Volumes (set)
Edited by Jeroen van de Weijer, Vincent J. van Heuven and Harry van der Hulst
The two volumes of the Phonological Spectrum aim at giving a comprehensive overview of current developments in phonological theory, by providing a number of papers in different areas of current theorizing which reflect on particular problems from different angles.Volume I is concerned with… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 233-234] 2003. x, 308 pp. & x, 264 pp.
Comparative Historical Dialectology: Italo-Romance clues to Ibero-Romance sound change
Thomas D. Cravens
This brief monograph explores the historical motivations for two sets of phonological changes in some varieties of Romance: restructured voicing of intervocalic /p t k/, and palatalization of initial /l/ and /n/. These developments have been treated repeatedly over the decades, yet neither has… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 231] 2002. xii, 163 pp.
Postvelar Harmony
Kimary N. Shahin
This book examines the formal bases of postvelar harmony and its crosslinguistic variation. It is of interest especially to phonologists concerned with segmental harmony and its explanation within Optimality Theory. Postvelar harmony in two unrelated languages, Palestinian Arabic and St'át'imcets… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 225] 2002. viii, 344 pp.
Romance Phonology and Variation: Selected papers from the 30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Gainesville, Florida, February 2000
Edited by Caroline R. Wiltshire and Joaquim Camps
This volume contains a selection of refereed and revised papers, originally presented at the 30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, focussing on the areas of phonology and language variation. The papers address issues in phonology such as the emergence of the unmarked, representational… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 217] 2002. xi, 238 pp.
Ideophones
Edited by F.K. Erhard Voeltz and Christa Kilian-Hatz
The present volume represents a selection of papers presented at the International Symposium on Ideophones held in January 1999 in St. Augustin, Germany. They center around the following hypotheses: Ideophones are universal; and constitute a grammatical category in all languages of the world;… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 44] 2001. x, 436 pp.
Linguistic Approaches to Poetry
Edited by Christine Michaux and Marc Dominicy
As of Volume 9 (1994/95) John Benjamins Publishing Company is the official publisher of the Belgian Journal of Linguistics, the annual publication of the Linguistic Society of Belgium. Each volume is topical and includes selected papers from the international meetings organised by the LSB.read more
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 15] 2001. viii, 228 pp.
Whose German?: The ach/ich alternation and related phenomena in ‘standard’ and ‘colloquial’
Orrin W. Robinson
The author addresses a number of issues in German and general phonology, using a specific problem in German phonology (the ach/ich alternation) as a springboard. These issues include especially the naturalness, or lack thereof, of the prescriptive standard in German, and the importance of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 208] 2001. xi, 169 pp.
Phonological Theory and the Dialects of Italy
Edited by Lori Repetti
These articles provide new explorations into phonological patterns attested in the minor Romance languages (‘dialects’) spoken in Italy. The goal of this book is both theoretical and empirical. First, it aims to introduce non-Italianists to the phonological structures of the Italian dialects,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 212] 2000. x, 301 pp.
Right Node Raising and Gapping: Interface conditions on prosodic deletion
Katharina Hartmann
This book investigates two elliptical coordinations in German, Right Node Raising and Gapping. Ellipsis in both constructions is claimed to be the result of a phonological process which is conditioned by prosodic and focus semantic constraints. It is convincingly argued that Right Node Raising… read more[Not in series, 106] 2000. xiv, 190 pp.
Sound Mutations: The morphophonology of Chaha
Degif Petros Banksira
This monograph, which evolved from the first linguistic dissertation to be written on Chaha (an Ethiopian Semitic language), is also the first book to deal exclusively with the phonology and morphology of the language. It is an exhaustive description and analysis, by a native speaker, of the sound… read more[Not in series, 93] 2000. xxxii, 332 pp.
Chinese Dialect Classification: A comparative approach to Harngjou, Old Jintarn, and Common Northern Wu
Richard VanNess Simmons
This volume is an investigation and classification of dialects along the Wu and Jiang-Hwai Mandarin border in China's eastern Yangtze Valley. It is the first monograph-length study to critically question the traditional single criterion of initial voicing for the classification of Wu dialects and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 188] 1999. xviii, 317 pp.
The Derivational Residue in Phonological Optimality Theory
Edited by Ben Hermans and Marc van Oostendorp
Constraint-based frameworks such as Optimality Theory (OT) have significantly altered phonologists' views on the nature of derivations and their role in linguistic theory. Earlier frameworks of generative phonology were characterized by a fairly complicated theory of derivations, involving lexical… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 28] 1999. viii, 321 pp.
Formal Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Selected papers from the 28th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL XXVIII), University Park, 16–19 April 1998
Edited by Jean-Marc Authier, Barbara E. Bullock and Lisa A. Reed
This volume presents current research in the formal treatment of linguistic phenomena in the Romance languages. It focuses on a variety of issues in phonology, second language acquisition, semantics, and syntax. Topics in phonological theory include the analysis of geminates, assimilation, rhotics,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 185] 1999. xii, 334 pp.
Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics: Volume I: General papers
Edited by Michael Darnell, Edith A. Moravcsik, Michael Noonan, Frederick J. Newmeyer and Kathleen Wheatley
The 23rd UWM Linguistics Symposium (1996) brought together linguists of opposing theoretical approaches – functionalists and formalists – in order to determine to what extent these approaches really differ from each other and to what extent the approaches complement each other. The two volumes of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 41] 1999. vi, 514 pp.
Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics: Volume II: Case studies
Edited by Michael Darnell, Edith A. Moravcsik, Michael Noonan, Frederick J. Newmeyer and Kathleen Wheatley
The 23rd UWM Linguistics Symposium (1996) brought together linguists of opposing theoretical approaches — functionalists and formalists — in order to determine to what extent these approaches really differ from each other and to what extent the approaches complement each other. The two volumes of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 42] 1999. vi, 407 pp.
Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics: 2 Volumes (set)
Edited by Michael Darnell, Edith A. Moravcsik, Michael Noonan, Frederick J. Newmeyer and Kathleen Wheatley
The 23rd UWM Linguistics Symposium (1996) brought together linguists of opposing theoretical approaches — functionalists and formalists — in order to determine to what extent these approaches really differ from each other and to what extent the approaches complement each other. The two volumes of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 41-42] 1999. vi, 486 pp. & vi, 407 pp.
Issues in Phonological Structure: Papers from an International Workshop
Edited by S.J. Hannahs and Mike Davenport
This volume contains revised, expanded and updated versions of papers originally presented at the International Workshop on Phonological Structure held at the University of Durham in September 1994. As the title suggests, the contributions focus on aspects of phonological structure, both segment… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 196] 1999. xii, 268 pp.
Phonetics of the Origins and Evolution of Speech
Edited by Didier Demolin and Jean-Marie Hombert
Papers from a satellite meeting of the XIVth Congress of the Phonetic Sciences regarding the phonetics of the origin and evolution of speech. Topics include: the internal structure of words, the question of the growth of the vocal tract, and principles of self-organization as they relate to the… read moreSpecial issue of Evolution of Communication 3:1 (1999) 103 pp.
Studies on the Phonological Word
Edited by Tracy Alan Hall and Ursula Kleinhenz
The present volume consists of nine articles dealing with the role of the constituent ‘phonological word’ (or ‘prosodic word’) in various typologically diverse languages. These languages and their respective families subsume Indo-European (Dutch, German, English, European Portuguese), Bantu… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 174] 1999. vi, 297 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume XI: Atlanta, Georgia, 1997
Edited by Elabbas Benmamoun, Mushira Eid and Niloofar Haeri
The papers in this volume address core areas in contemporary Arabic linguistics: syntax, phonology, and variation studies. The papers in the syntax sections address different topics from the perspective of the Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995) and subsequent work. The topics in this section are… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 167] 1998. viii, 231 pp.
Phonetics and Phonology of Tense and Lax Obstruents in German
Michael Jessen
Knowing that the so-called voiced and voiceless stops in languages like English and German do not always literally differ in voicing, several linguists among them Roman Jakobson have proposed that dichotomies such as fortis/lenis or tense/lax might be more suitable to capture the invariant… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 44] 1998. xx, 394 pp.
Romance Linguistics: Theoretical Perspectives. Selected papers from the 27th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL XXVII), Irvine, 20–22 February, 1997
Edited by Armin Schwegler, Bernard Tranel and Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria
This volume contains selected papers from the 27th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL-27), which was held at the University of California, Irvine, on February 20-22, 1997. The 22 papers deal with current issues in linguistic theory as they can be illuminated by the close analysis and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 160] 1998. vi, 349 pp. + index
Second Language Phonology
John Archibald
This volume explores a variety of aspects of second language speech, with special focus on contributions to the field made by (primarely) generative linguists looking at the sounds and sound systems of second language learners. Second Language Phonology starts off with an overview of second… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 17] 1998. xii, 313 pp.
Focus on Phonological Acquisition
Edited by S.J. Hannahs and Martha Young-Scholten
The publication of this edited volume comes at a time when interest in the acquisition of phonology by both children learning a first language and adults learning a second is starting to swell. The ten contributions, from established scholars and relative newcomers alike, provide a comprehensive… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 16] 1997. v, 289 pp.
The Phonology of Coronals
Tracy Alan Hall
This study investigates the phonological behavior of coronal consonants, i.e. sounds produced with the tip or blade of the tongue. The analysis draws on data from over 120 languages and dialects. A definition of coronality is proposed that rejects the current view holding that palatals are… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 149] 1997. x, 176 pp.
Variation, Change, and Phonological Theory
Edited by Frans Hinskens, Roeland van Hout and W. Leo Wetzels
There is a growing awareness that a fruitful cooperation between the (diachronic and synchronic) study of language variation and change and work in phonological theory is both possible and desirable. The study of language variation and change would benefit from this kind of cooperation on the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 146] 1997. x, 314 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume VIII: Amherst, Massachusetts 1994
Edited by Mushira Eid
This volume includes ten papers selected from the Eighth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held at the University of Masschusetts, Amherst, 1994. Six of them deal with the syntax of Arabic two with phonology, and two with variation. The topics represented in the volume include binding in… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 134] 1996. vii, 261 pp.
Trubetzkoy's Orphan: Proceedings of the Montréal Roundtable on “Morphonology: contemporary responses” (Montréal, October 1994)
Edited by Rajendra Singh
In putting ‘morphonology’ up for adoption as a chapitre particulier in 1929, Trubetzkoy started a debate regarding the boundary between phonology and morphology that has not ended yet. Essentially a record of a roundtable devoted to that boundary (Montréal, October 1994), Trubetzkoy’s Orphan is a… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 144] 1996. xiv, 363 pp.
Writings in General Linguistics: On Sound Alternation (1881) and Outline of Linguistic Science (1883)
Mikołaj Kruszewski (1851–1887)
This volume brings together the most important general linguistic writings by Mikołay Kruszewski (1851-1887), whom Roman Jakobson described as “one of the greatest theoreticians of language among the world linguists of the late nineteenth century”. Apart from reissuing a revised version of the late… read more[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 11] 1995. xl, 188 pp.
Ancient Scripts and Phonological Knowledge
D. Gary Miller
This study investigates the properties of several ancient syllabic and linear segmental scripts to make explicit the aspects of linguistic knowledge they attempt to represent. Some recent experimental work suggests that nonliterate speakers do not have segmental knowledge and that only syllabic… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 116] 1994. xvi, 139 pp.
Consonant Strength in Upper German Dialects
Kurt Gustav Goblirsch
The present study examines the problem of fortis and lenis in approximately 150 dialects of southern Germany, Austria, German-speaking Switzerland, Alsace, and the German-speaking minorities in Italy, Hungary and the former Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. The Upper German dialects are of particular… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 10] 1994. vi, 127 pp.
Sound Change
Edited by Marc Dominicy and Didier Demolin
As of Volume 9 (1994/95) John Benjamins Publishing Company is the official publisher of the Belgian Journal of Linguistics, the annual publication of the Linguistic Society of Belgium. Each volume is topical and includes selected papers from the international meetings organised by the LSB.read more
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 9] 1994. 158 pp.
The Unaccented Vowels of Proto-Norse
Martin Syrett
The Unaccented Vowels of Proto-Norse attempts to analyse the unaccented vowel system attested in the proto-Norse period, as partially attested in the older runic inscriptions in the elder futhark. Each chapter in turn assesses the evidence for unaccented syllables of a particular category, whether… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 11] 1994. 323 pp.
English Phonology
John T. Jensen
This is a general discussion of the phonology of English within the frameworks of lexical, metrical, and prosodic phonology. It not only presents a synthesis of current approaches but also reconciles their discrepancies and presents critical commentary. There is a discussion of current theories,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 99] 1993. x, 251 pp.
Principles and Prediction: The analysis of natural language. Papers in honor of Gerald Sanders
Edited by Mushira Eid and Gregory Iverson
The volume is divided into four sections: typology, syntax, discourse and phonology. Two of the typology papers study the structure and organization of category systems (Joseph Greenberg, Linda Schwartz); the third discusses language typology and universals from the perspective of language… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 98] 1993. xix, 382 pp.
Diachronic Studies in Lexicology, Affixation, Phonology: Edita and Inedita 1979–1988. Volume II
Yakov Malkiel
The ten articles collected in this volume are an impressive indication of the range and depth of Malkiel's knowledge of diachronic processes in the Romance languages. In the author's experience, etymological studies of lexis frequently lead one into the areas of phonology and morphology, and the… read more[Not in series, EAI 2] 1992. vi, 312 pp.
Phonological Investigations
Edited by Jacek Fisiak and Stanislaw Puppel
The papers in this volume deal with subjects ranging from sound change and general phonological issues to analyses of specific problems in Polish and English, while some papers are of a crosslinguistic/contrastive nature. No single phonological paradigm has been followed, and this diversity of… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 38] 1992. x, 507 pp.
Zur Phonologie und Morphologie des Altniederländischen
Herausgegeben von Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr. und Arend Quak
Unter den Übersichten über die ältesten germanischen Sprachen vermißt man oft das Altniederländische. Es wird ihm höchstens ein sehr bescheidener Platz unter der Bezeichnung 'Altnieder fränkisch' eingeräumt. Als Folge der namentlich deutschen historischen Sprachforschung des 19. Jahrhunderts… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 7] 1992. iv, 123 pp.
Studies in the Historical Phonology of Asian Languages
Edited by William G. Boltz and Michael C. Shapiro
This volume owes its genesis to a series of lectures on various aspects of the historical phonology of Asian languages, sponsored by the Asian Linguistics Colloquium of the Department of Asian Languages and Literature of the University of Washington, in Seattle. The volume includes papers on both… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 77] 1991. viii, 249 pp.
Diachronic Problems in Phonosymbolism: Edita and Inedita, 1979–1988. Volume I
Yakov Malkiel
Phonosymbolism, or sound symbolism (Lautsymbolik), is a vital ingredient of language growth. Many serious scholars, however, have regarded it with embarrassment or indifference. A cautious reintroduction of phonosymbolism as a factor responsible for changes undergone, in varying degrees, by most… read more[Not in series, EAI 1] 1990. vii, 274 pp.
Antike Rhythmustheorien: Historische Form und aktuelle Substanz
Wilfried Neumaier
[Heuremata: Studien zu Literatur, Sprachen und Kultur der Antike, 11] 1989. viii, 139 pp.
La phonologie du schwa français
Sous la direction de S. Paul Verluyten
Ce livre présente quatre études sur la phonologie du schwa français. “Sur l’identité phonologique du schwa français dans l’accentuation et dans la syllabation”, par Hans Basbøll; “La syllabification et les regles de changement de syllabe en français”, par Roland Noske; “A propos de l’ajustement de… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 16] 1988. vi, 202 pp.
Phonological Reconstruction
Edited by Marc Dominicy and Juliette Dror
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 3] 1988. 183 pp.
The Prague School and Its Legacy
Edited by Yishai Tobin
Many of the fundamental ideas of the classical Prague School have guided or inspired much of the interdisciplinary post World War II research in linguistics, literary theory, semiotics, folklore and the arts. The Prague School promoted a humanistic and functional Leitmotiv of language as an open,… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 27] 1988. xxx, 317 pp.
The Theory of Neutralization and the Archiphoneme in Functional Phonology
Tsutomu Akamatsu
The theory of neutralization and the archiphoneme is well known to have been expounded by the Prague School. It is now being fully accepted and practised by A. Martinet and his associates, to whom Akamatsu refers as the neo-Prague School. The objective is to propose a maximally functionalist theory… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 43] 1988. xxi, 533 pp.
Tibeto-Burman Tonology: A Comparative Analysis
Alfons Weidert
This monograph lays the foundation for a prosodological theory of Tibeto-Burman languages within a comparative and reconstructional framework. It is primarily based on data collections of mostly unknown languages on which the author worked for more than 10 years on several projects. This… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 54] 1987. xvii, 512 pp.
Aspects of Dynamic Phonology
Toby D. Griffen
Dynamic phonology is the natural consequence of the combination of the latest developments in physiological and acoustic phonetics and the traditional structural/functional theories of linguistics. In phonetics, the segmental approach has long since given way to dynamic phonetics, leaving linguists… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 37] 1985. ix, 302 pp.
A Glance at the History of Linguistics: with particular regard to the historical study of phonology
Holger Pedersen (1867–1953)
This volume presents a translation into English of Holger Pedersen’s Et Blik på Sprogvidenskabens Historie (Copenhagen 1916). In addition, it provides an introductory article by E.F.K. Koerner on Pedersen’s life and work, and a bibliography of his writings. read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 7] 1983. xxxii, 100 pp.
Generative Phonology: A Case Study from French
Nigel Love
This study is a discussion of, rather than a contribution to, generative phonology. The central question posed, is: Does linguistic theory provide a basis for choosing between competing grammars — that is, an evaluation procedure for grammars? If so, then what is its form? If not, then how are we… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 4] 1981. viii, 241 pp.
Phonology in the 1980’s
Edited by Didier L. Goyvaerts
This volume brings together a number of ground-breaking papers in the theory of phonology. read more[Studies in the Sciences of Language Series, 4] 1981. viii, 647 pp.
Experimental Linguistics: Integration of theories and applications
Edited by Gary D. Prideaux, Bruce L. Derwing and Will Baker
Linguistics has suffered from the lack of interaction between theoretical and experimental activities. In order to carry out experimental studies in language it is, of course, necessary to have a descriptive system for the stimuli, and formal linguistics has provided a plethora of alternative… read more[Studies in the Sciences of Language Series, 3] 1980. vi, 321 pp.
Issues in Vowel Harmony: Proceedings of the CUNY Linguistics Conference on Vowel Harmony, May 14, 1977
Edited by Robert M. Vago
Vowel harmony is a well known phonological phenomenon found in a large number of languages spoken mainly in Eurasia and the African continent. In simple terms, vowel harmony is a law which governs the co-occurrence of vowels within a span of utterance, nearly always the word. The contributions of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 6] 1980. xx, 340 pp.
'Über den Umlaut: Zwei Abhandlungen' (Carlsruhe, 1843) and 'Über den Ablaut' (Carlsruhe, 1844)
Adolf Holtzmann (1810–1870)
Über den Umlaut (1843) and Über den Ablaut (1844) grew out of a review of Grimm’s Deutsche Grammatik by Holtzmann, in which he also made an excursus into Bopp’s theory of vowel gradation in Sanskrit. Holtzmann was the first to observe the correlation of guṇa and accent. At the same time he noted… read more[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 12] 1977. xxix, 48, and 81 pp.
The Development of Morphophonemic Theory
James Kilbury
The aim of this book is to provide a concise historical survey of linguistic investigation relating to the notion of morphophonemics. The study is essentially historical and thus does not offer its own theory of morphophonemics. Since attention is focused on the development of morphophonemic… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 10] 1976. viii, 155 pp.
Componential Analysis of Lushai Phonology
Alfons Weidert
The aim of this essay is to present a phonological analysis of Lushai, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Mizoram province of India, in terms of componential features applying – as mutation rules – to the morphophonological level. An analysis of this nature becomes possible if the concepts of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 2] 1975. xiv, 139 pp.
Essays on the Sound Pattern of English
Edited by Didier L. Goyvaerts and Geoffrey K. Pullum
This book is a collection of readings in phonological theory with special reference to English. The essays it contains are all concerned to a significant extent with discussion and criticism of the theory of phonology developed by Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle in their monograph The Sound Pattern… read more[Studies in the Sciences of Language Series, 1] 1975. x, 580
The Study of Indo-European Vocalism in the 19th century: From the beginnings to Whitney and Scherer. A critical-historical account
Wilbur A. Benware
In the 19th century research on the Indo-European languages was to a large degree coterminus with the development of linguistics itself. The most notable accomplishments, as related in every history of linguistics, took place in the area of phonology. The present study examines one aspect of… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 3] 1974. xii, 126 pp. 2nd. printing 1995.