The Prosody-Morphology Interface / Edition 2

by René Kager, Harry van der Hulst, Wim Zonneveld

Overview

In many languages, word formation is restricted by principles of prosody that organize speech sounds into larger units such as the syllable. Written by an international team of leading linguists in the field of prosodic morphology, this book examines a range of key issues in the interaction of word formation and prosody. It provides an explanation for nonconcatenative morphology that occurs in different forms (such as reduplication) in many languages, by an interaction of independent general principles of prosodic and morphological well-formedness.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521621083
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	05/06/1999
Series:	Studies in Natural Language Processing
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	454
Product dimensions:	6.26(w) x 9.29(h) x 1.30(d)

Table of Contents

Contributors; Preface; 1. Introduction René Kager and Wim Zonneveld; 2. On the moraic representation of underlying geminates: evidence from prosodic morphology Stuart Davis; 3. Verbal reduplication in three Bantu languages Laura J. Downing; 4. Prosodic morphology and tone: the case of Chichewa Larry M. Hyman and Al Mtenje; 5. Exceptional stress-attracting suffixes in Turkish: representations versus the grammar Sharon Inkelas; 6. Realignment Junko Itô and Armin Mester; 7. Faithfulness and identity in prosodic morphology John J. McCarthy and Alan S. Prince; 8. Austronesian nasal substitution and other ṆC effects Joe Pater; 9. The prosodic base of the Hausa plural Sam Rosenthall; 10. Prosodic optimality and prefixation in Polish Graźyna Rowicka; 11. Double reduplications in parallel Suzanne Urbanczyk; Index of subject; Index of constraints; Index of language; Index of names.