Prosodic Phonology of the Fuzhou Dialect

Domains and Rule Application
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-19948-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 564 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Chinese Linguistics

Prosodic Phonology of the Fuzhou Dialect: Domains and Rule Application is the first attempt to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the Fuzhou phonological system from the perspective of prosodic phonology.

It addresses the following issues: What prosodic constituents exist in the Fuzhou dialect and what kinds of roles they play in the Fuzhou phonological system; how to define the domain formation of these prosodic constituents in the Fuzhou dialect; what kinds of Fuzhou phonological phenomena make crucial reference to these prosodic constituents as the domain of application; and what implications does the study of the Fuzhou phonological system have for the prosodic phonology theory.

This book is a valuable text for students and scholars in the field of Chinese dialectology, Min dialects, prosodic phonology, and phonology-morphosyntax interface.

Autoren/Hrsg.

You, Shuxiang

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Alphabetisierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Figures and Tables

Abbreviations

1 Introduction

1.1 Statement of purpose

1.2 Research data

1.2.1 Published materials on the Fuzhou dialect

1.2.2 Data collection

1.3 Descriptive background on Fuzhou phonology

1.3.1 Tones in the Fuzhou dialect

1.3.2 Finals in the Fuzhou dialect

1.3.3 Initials in the Fuzhou dialect

1.3.4 Structure of Fuzhou syllables

1.3.5 Phonological rules in the Fuzhou dialect

1.3.6 Summary

1.4 Theoretical background: the prosodic phonology theory

1.4.1 The development of the prosodic phonology theory

1.4.2 Basic tenets of the prosodic phonology theory

1.4.3 Outstanding issues in the prosodic phonology theory

1.5 Research structure and organization

2 Syllable and foot in the Fuzhou dialect

2.1 Syllable: the domain of FA in the Fuzhou dialect

2.2 Foot as a domain of rule application in Fuzhou: a good choice or not?

2.2.1 Introduction: the foot as a prosodic domain across languages

2.2.2 Previous studies on the foot in the Fuzhou dialect

2.2.3 Additional arguments against the foot as a domain of rule application in the Fuzhou dialect

2.2.4 Summary

2.3 Summary

3 Prosodic word: domain of lexical-level rule application in the Fuzhou dialect

3.1 Introduction

3.1.1 Definition of the prosodic word and its domain formation

3.1.2 The prosodic word as a prosodic domain across languages

3.2 Morphosyntactic word formation in the Fuzhou dialect

3.2.1 Monomorphemic words

3.2.2 Derived words

3.2.3 Compounds

3.2.4 Reduplication: "diminutive" nouns

3.2.5 Reduplication: sound-splitting words

3.2.6 Reduplication: reduplicated adjectives

3.2.7 Summary

3.3 Fuzhou morphosyntactic words and lexical-level pho

Über Autor(innen)

Shuxiang You is Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Chinese Linguistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2013 and 2017 respectively. His research interests include phonology, phonology-syntax interface, Chinese dialectology, and teaching Chinese as a second language.