Hulst Word Prosodic Systems in the Languages of Europe

Nachdruck 2011
ISBN: 978-3-11-019708-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 20-4, 1079 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

Reihe: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]ISSN

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Hulst, Harry van der

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Phonetik, Phonologie, Prosodie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Frontmatter;1
2;Contents;13
3;1. Word accent;33
4;2. Stress domains;147
5;3. The rhythmic organization of compounds and phrases;191
6;4. Word prosody and intonation;263
7;5. The phonetic manifestation of word stress;303
8;6. Diachronic prosody;365
9;7. A survey of word prosodic systems of European languages;455
10;8. Wordstress in West-Germanic and North-Germanic languages;507
11;9. Word tone in Germanic languages;635
12;10. Stress in the Romance languages;689
13;11. Slavic languages;843
14;12. Baltic languages;907
15;13. Greek word accent;927
16;14. Basque accentuation;977
17;15. Caucasian: Daghestanian languages;1025
18;Backmatter;1051