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The papers collected in this volume apply principles of phonology
and morphology to the Germanic languages. Phonological phenomena
range from subsegmental over phonemic to prosodic units (as
syllables, pitch accent, stress). Morphology includes properties of
roots, derivation, inflection, and words. The analyses deal with
language-internal and comparative aspects, covering the whole
(European) range of Germanic languages. From a theoretical
perspective, most papers concentrate on constraint-based
approaches. Crucial to those theories are principles of the
phonology-morphology interaction, both within and between
languages. The well documented Germanic languages provide an
excellent field for research and almost all papers deal with
aspects of the interface.
Prosody as a system of suprasegmental linguistic information such
as rhythm and intonation is a prime candidate for looking at the
relation between language and music in a principled way. This claim
is based on several aspects: First, prosody is concerned with
acoustic correlates of language and music that are directly
comparable with each other by their physical properties such as
duration and pitch. Second, prosodic accounts suggest a
hierarchical organization of prosodic units that not only resembles
a syntactic hierarchy, but is viewed as (part of) an interface to
syntax. Third, prosody provides a very promising ground for
evolutionary accounts of language and music. Fourth, bilateral
transfer effects between language and music are best illustrated on
the level of prosody. Highlighting the first two aspects, this book
shows that it is a fruitful endeavor to use prosody for a
principled comparison of language and music. In its broader sense,
prosody as sound structure of communicative systems may be
considered a "meta"-language that formalizes the way of "how music
speaks to language and vice versa". Prosody is firmly established
within linguistic theory, but is also applied in the musical
domain. Therefore, prosody is not just a field of inquiry that
shares elements or features between music and language, but can
additionally provide a common conceptual ground.
One of the basic grammatical categories in linguistics is the
phonological word. But how are words made up in terms of their
sounds? And how is the information on the sound structure of words
used in the processing of words? The multidimensionality of the
phonological word relates it to semantics, morphology, phonology
and syntax. It is nevertheless a category that has only been an
object of serious study since the prosodic turn in phonology and
thus cannot be considered an established category of grammatical
description. This volume brings together scholars interested in the
complex relations of the phonological word, applying different
empirical approaches.
This is the most complete, up-to-date description of the phonology of German presently available. It applies recent models of phonological theory, laying particular emphasis on the interaction of morphology and phonology. Now in a new paperback edition, it focuses on the present-day standard language, including discussions of other variants and registers.
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