Development in prosodic systems / edited by Paula Fikkert, Haike Jacobs.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fikkert, Johanna Paula Monique, 1965-

Jacobs, Haike, 1961-

Series:

Studies in generative grammar ; 58.

Studies in generative grammar ; 58

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prosodic analysis (Linguistics).

Historical linguistics.

Physical Description:

viii, 463 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : M. de Gruyter, 2003.

Contents:

The relationship between tone and vowel length in two neighboring Dutch Limburgian dialects / Linda Heijmans 7

Prosodic change in progress: from quantity language to accent language / Ilse Lehiste 47

Prosodic change from tone to vowel length in Korean / Kyung-Keun Kwon 67

Diachrony of the Scandinavian accent typology / Tomas Riad 91

Kaluza's Law and the progress of Old English metrics / Thomas Cable 145

Middle English stress doubles: New evidence from Chaucer's meter / Michael Redford 159

Constraining S and satisfying fit / Wim Zonneveld 197

From phrase-final to post-initial accent in western Basque / Jose Ignacio Hualde 249

Swiss German vowel length through time / Astrid Kraehenmann 283

The prosodic structure of prefixed words in the history of West Germanic / Paula Fikkert 315

Left-hand word-stress in the history of English / Chris McCully 349

Why preantepenultimate stress in Latin requires an OT-account / Haike Jacobs 395

From prosody to place: The development of prosodic contrasts into place of articulation contrast in the history of Miogliola / Mirco Ghini 419.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

3110166844

OCLC:

50809237