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This book is the first comprehensive treatment of the phonological
system of Basque available in English. Basque is a morphologically
rich and fairly regular language with a number of active
phonological rules that are limited to certain morphological
environments. In addition, it has a high degree of dialectical
fragmentation. These characteristics of Basque make this language a
good test ground to investigate the interaction of phonological
rules both with each other and with morphological processes, which
the author does within the Lexical Phonology framework. The effects
of rule interaction on feature geometry are a major concern - how
phonological operations modify underlying structures and how the
structures created by one phonological rule can serve as input to
other rules. These effects are examined in a study of the rather
peculiar behaviour of Basque affricates. Another area which
requires particular attention, and in which Basque dialects differ
widely, is prosody. Along with stress-accent systems of different
types, Basque also possesses pitch-accent or restricted tonal
systems in some of its western dialects. This book should be of
interest to advanced students and teachers of linguistics,
especially Romance linguistics and lexical phonology.
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Catalan (Paperback)
Jose Ignacio Hualde
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Among the languages of Europe spoken by bilingual communities,
Catalan has a special status because of its vitality. Catalan
enjoys official recognition in Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic
Islands, in spain and in the principality of Andorra. Catalan is of
importance within the Romance family because it constitutes a link
between the Ibero-Romance family of languages and the Gallo-Romance
branches. This book will be of interest to both Romanists and
general linguists engaged in comparative work.
Among the languages of Europe Catalan has a special status because
it enjoys official recognition, along with Spanish, in a number of
Spanish-speaking regions. These include Catalonia, Valencia and the
Balearic Islands and the principality of Andorra. Also spoken in
Roussillon, France, and in the town of Alghero, Sardinia, it
therefore has a relatively large number of speakers. Catalan is
also of importance within the Romance family of languages, because
it constitutes a link between the Ibero-Romance and the
Gallo-Romance branches. In its syntax and morphology it presents
characteristics which will be familiar to readers with a knowledge
of other Romance languages, especially Spanish. But there are a
number of areas in which Catalan differs markedly, and this study
explores them in depth. This book should be of interest to
postraduates and academics in linguistics, particularly Romance and
comparative linguistics.
This book is the first comprehensive treatment of the phonological
system of Basque available in English. Basque is a morphologically
rich and fairly regular language with a number of active
phonological rules that are limited to certain morphological
environments. In addition, it has a high degree of dialectical
fragmentation. These characteristics of Basque make this language a
good test ground to investigate the interaction of phonological
rules both with each other and with morphological processes, which
the author does within the Lexical Phonology framework. The effects
of rule interaction on feature geometry are a major concern - how
phonological operations modify underlying structures and how the
structures created by one phonological rule can serve as input to
other rules. These effects are examined in a study of the rather
peculiar behaviour of Basque affricates. Another area which
requires particular attention, and in which Basque dialects differ
widely, is prosody. Along with stress-accent systems of different
types, Basque also possesses pitch-accent or restricted tonal
systems in some of its western dialects. This book should be of
interest to advanced students and tea
This book contains a selection of papers presented at the 9th
Conference on Laboratory Phonology, which was held in June 2004 at
the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology on the
campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The theme
of the conference was Change in Phonology, broadly conceived as to
include both language evolution at the level of the speech
community and development within the individual speaker/hearer. The
chapters in this book are organized in five sections: phonological
variation and change within the speech community, mechanisms of
change in sound systems, phonological acquisition from different
experimental perspectives, second language phonology, modeling of
language variation, and segmental and suprasegmental phenomena
related to the timing of speech gestures. These topics are explored
from a number of perspectives, both within and outside of
traditional linguistics. We believe that the papers included in
this volume demonstrate that the Laboratory Phonology approach has
reached maturity and has succeeded in its aim not only to bridge
the gap between phonetics and phonology but also to establish a
fruitful and mutually beneficial dialog between linguists and other
scientists and scholars concerned with the study of the sound
patterns of human language from different perspectives.
This accessible textbook provides a clear introduction to the
sounds of Spanish, designed specifically for English-speaking
students of the language. Assuming no prior knowledge of
linguistics, it explains from scratch the fundamentals of phonetics
(the study of sounds) and phonology (the study of sound systems)
and describes in detail the phonetic and phonological
characteristics of Spanish as it is spoken in both Spain and Latin
America. Topics covered include consonants, vowels, acoustics,
stress, syllables, intonation, and aspects of variation within
Spanish. Clear comparisons are made between the sounds of Spanish
and those of English, and students are encouraged to put theory
into practice with over fifty graded exercises. Setting a solid
foundation in the description and analysis of Spanish sounds, The
Sounds of Spanish will help students improve their pronunciation of
the language, and will also be useful to those studying the
linguistic structure of Spanish for the first time. All the sounds
described in this book are demonstrated on the audio resources that
accompany this book online.
This accessible textbook provides a clear introduction to the
sounds of Spanish. Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, it
explains from scratch the fundamentals of phonetics (the study of
speech sounds) and phonology (the study of sound systems) and
describes in detail the phonetic and phonological characteristics
of Spanish as it is spoken in both Spain and Latin America. Topics
covered include consonants, vowels, acoustics, stress, syllables,
intonation, and aspects of variation within Spanish. Clear
comparisons are made between the sounds of Spanish and those of
English, and students are encouraged to put theory into practice
with over fifty graded exercises. Los sonidos del espanol will help
students gain a solid understanding of the sound system of Spanish
and will also be useful to scholars in phonetics and phonology. All
the sounds described in this book are demonstrated in the online
audio sound files which accompany this book.
Written entirely in Spanish, this is the ideal introduction to
Spanish linguistics for students. Using clear explanations, it
covers all the basic concepts required to study the structural
aspects of the Spanish language - phonetics and phonology,
morphology, syntax and semantics - as well as the history of
Spanish, its dialects, and its linguistic variation in Latin
America, Spain, and the US. This third edition incorporates new
features designed to enhance its usefulness for classroom teaching:
a new chapter on the teaching and learning of Spanish as a second
language, expanded discussion of syntax, and more detailed coverage
of Spanish semantics and pragmatics. Numerous exercises have been
added throughout the text, some of which are now presented as
problems for students to solve, allowing students to gain a more
complete mastery of the analytical concepts at hand.
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