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Asymmetries in Vowel Harmony

A Representational Account

By: Harry van der Hulst

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Asymmetries in Vowel Harmony

A Representational Account

By: Harry van der Hulst

This book deals with the phenomenon of vowel harmony, a phonological process whereby all the vowels in a word are required to share a specific phonological property, such as front or back articulation. Vowel harmony occurs in the majority of languages of the world, though only in very few European languages, and has been a central concern in phonological theory for many years. In this volume, Harry van der Hulst puts forward a new theory of vowel harmony, which accounts for the patterns of and exceptions to this phenomenon in the widest range of languages ever considered. The book begins with an overview of the general causes of asymmetries in vowel harmony systems. The two following chapters provide a detailed account of a new theory of vowel harmony based on unary elements and licensing, which is embedded in a general dependency-based theory of phonological structure. In the remaining chapters, this theory is applied to a variety of vowel harmony phenomena from typologically diverse languages, including palatal harmony in languages such as Finnish and Hungarian, labial harmony in Turkic languages, and tongue root systems in Niger-Congo, Nilo-Saharan, and Tungusic languages. The volume provides a valuable overview of the diversity of vowel harmony in the languages of the world and is essential reading for phonologists of all theoretical persuasions.

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Oxford University Press

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0192543067

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9780192543066

Principles of Radical CV Phonology

A Theory of Segmental and Syllabic Structure

By: van der Hulst Harry van der Hulst

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Principles of Radical CV Phonology

A Theory of Segmental and Syllabic Structure

By: van der Hulst Harry van der Hulst

Harry van der Hulst's model of Radical CV Phonology has roots in the framework of Dependency Phonology, but proposes a rather different 'geometry', which reduces the set of unary elements to just two: |C| and |V|. The model explains the phonological distinctions that function contrastively in the world's languages rather than presenting it as a 'random' list. Van der Hulst shows how this model accounts for a number of central claims about markedness and minimal specification. He explains how the representational system accounts for phonological rules and shows how this theory can be applied to sign language structure. Through comparison to other models, he also provides insight into current theories of segmental structure, commonly used feature systems, as well as recurrent controversies.

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440

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474454690

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9781474454698

The Phonological Structure of Words

An Introduction

By: Colin J. Ewen,Harry van der Hulst

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The Phonological Structure of Words

An Introduction

By: Colin J. Ewen,Harry van der Hulst

This book is designed to provide students of phonology with an accessible introduction to the phonological architecture of words. It offers a thorough discussion of the basic building blocks of phonology - in particular features, sounds, syllables and feet - and deals with a range of different theories about these units. Colin Ewen and Harry van der Hulst present their study within a non-linear framework, discussing the contributions of autosegmental phonology, dependency phonology, government phonology and metrical phonology, among others. Their coherent, integrated approach reveals that the differences between these models are not as great as is sometimes believed. The book provides a more detailed analysis of this subject than previously available in introductory textbooks and is an invaluable and indispensable first step towards understanding the major theoretical issues in modern phonology at the word level.

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292

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Cambridge University Press

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0521359147

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9780521359146

A Mind for Language

An Introduction to the Innateness Debate

By: Harry van der Hulst

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A Mind for Language

An Introduction to the Innateness Debate

By: Harry van der Hulst

Illustrated with real-life examples throughout, this book provides a complete introduction to one of the most fundamental question about what it means to be human: how does human language arise in the mind? Theory is explained in an easy-to-understand way, making it accessible for students without a background in linguistics.

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595

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Cambridge University Press

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1108471579

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9781108471572

Syllable Structure and Stress in Dutch

By: Harry van der Hulst

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Syllable Structure and Stress in Dutch

By: Harry van der Hulst

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270

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3112419987

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9783112419984

Phonological Projection

A Theory of Feature Content and Prosodic Structure

By: Marc van Oostendorp

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Phonological Projection

A Theory of Feature Content and Prosodic Structure

By: Marc van Oostendorp

The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110809249

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Jan Hendrik Oort

Master of the Galactic System

By: Pieter C. van der Kruit

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Jan Hendrik Oort

Master of the Galactic System

By: Pieter C. van der Kruit

This book is the first thorough and overdue biography of one of the giants of science in the twentieth century, Jan Hendrik Oort. His fundamental contributions had a lasting effect on the development of our insight and a profound influence on the international organization and cooperation in his area of science and on the efforts and contribution of his native country. This book aims at describing Oort's life and works in the context of the development of his branch of science and as a tribute to a great scientist in a broader sense. The astronomer Jan Hendrik Oort from the Netherlands was founder of studies of the structure and dynamics of the Milky Way Galaxy, initiator of radioastronomy and the European Southern Observatory, and an important contributor to many areas of astronomy, from the study of comets to the universe on the largest scales.

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Springer

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3030178013

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9783030178017

Ten Years, Realized Works

By: Erick van Egeraat

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Ten Years, Realized Works

By: Erick van Egeraat

The work of EEA, as presented in this retrospective of the past 10 years of its work, covers the full architectural gamut including public, educational, residential, interior design, exhibition design and the design of furniture and objects.

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Images Publishing

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1864701315

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9781864701319

The Phonology of Shanghai Sign Language

By: Jisheng Zhang,Yanhong Wu,Shengyun Gu,Feng Yang,Yin’er Zhu,Jeroen van de Weijer

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The Phonology of Shanghai Sign Language

By: Jisheng Zhang,Yanhong Wu,Shengyun Gu,Feng Yang,Yin’er Zhu,Jeroen van de Weijer

Applying the framework of the Prosodic Model to naturalistic data, this book presents a systematic study of the phonological structure of Shanghai Sign Language (SHSL). It examines the handshape inventory of SHSL in terms of its underlying featural specifications, phonetic realization and phonological processes such as assimilation, epenthesis, deletion, coalescence, non-dominant hand spread and weak drop. The authors define the role of the prosodic hierarchy in SHSL and analyze the linguistic functions of non-manual markers. This systematic investigation not only contributes to our understanding of SHSL itself, but also informs typological research on sign languages in the world.

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