Syllable Weight

Autorentext

Matthew Gordon is an Associate Professor in the Linguistics Department at University of California, Santa Barbara. He has published a number of articles dealing with topics related to the interface between phonetics and phonology, stress and intonation, and the phonetic documentation of endangered languages.

Klappentext

The book is the first systematic exploration of a series of phonological phenomena previously thought to be unified under the rubric of syllable weight.

Inhalt

Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. The Typology of Weight Chapter 3. Weight-sensitive Tone Chapter 4. Weight-sensitive Stress Chapter 5. Other Weight-sensitive Phenomena Chapter 6. Conclusions