The phonology of Turkish / Öner Özçelik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Özçelik, Öner, author.

Series:

Phonology of the world's languages.

Oxford scholarship online.

The phonology of the world's languages

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Turkish language--Phonology.

Turkish language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

Offering a comprehensive account of the phonological structure of modern Turkish, couched within a primarily constraint-based framework, this book provides a critical synthesis of research in Turkish phonology, as well as offering new analyses and data from a theoretically-oriented perspective.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction

1.1 The Turkish language

1.1.1 General characteristics and linguistic affinity

1.1.2 Historical development

1.1.3 Influence from other languages and language reforms

1.2 Orthography

1.3 Theoretical background

1.4 An overview of this book

2 Segmental phonology

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Consonants

2.2.1 Stops

2.2.2 Affricates

2.2.3 Fricatives

2.2.4 Nasals

2.2.5 Liquids

2.2.6 Glides

2.2.7 Soft-g: a glide with no phonetic correlate?

2.3 Vowels

2.3.1 General issues and categorization

2.3.2 Turkish vowel phonemes and their allophones

2.4 Conclusion

3 Syllabification and related phonological processes

3.1 Introduction

3.2 The representation of syllables

3.3 Onsets

3.3.1 Simple onsets

3.3.1.1 The ban on soft-g &lt

g&gt

appearing in the onset position: ambisyllabicity

3.3.1.2 Consonants that rarely appear in onset position: prothesis

3.3.2 Complex onsets

3.3.2.1 Vowel epenthesis

3.3.2.2 Prothesis

3.4 The rhyme

3.4.1 The rhyme as a constituent

3.4.1.1 Vowel shortening

3.4.2 The nucleus

3.4.2.1 Heterosyllabic vowel sequences: hiatus (avoidance and inevitability)

3.4.2.2 k/Ø alternation

3.5 Codas

3.5.1 Simple codas

3.5.1.1 Final devoicing

3.5.1.2 Compensatory lengthening

3.5.2 Complex codas

3.5.2.1 Permissible coda clusters: role of sonority and place

3.5.2.2 Vowel epenthesis

3.5.2.3 Degemination

3.5.3 Final vs. non-final coda asymmetries

3.6 Extending the syllable structure: the appendix

3.7 Conclusion

4 Vowel harmony

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Canonical vowel harmony

4.2.1 Turkish vowel inventory again

4.2.2 Backness and roundness harmonies: basic facts

4.2.3 A Feature Geometric account.

4.3 Non-canonical vowel harmony

4.3.1 Vowel-conditioned disharmony

4.3.2 Consonant-conditioned vowel (dis)harmony

4.3.2.1 The case of the lateral

4.3.2.2 Consonants other than the lateral

4.4 Harmony and disharmony in epenthetic vowels

4.4.1 Epenthetic vowel (dis)harmony when repairing coda clusters

4.4.2 Epenthetic vowel (dis)harmony when repairing onset clusters

4.5 Vowel harmony in roots

4.6 Conclusion

5 Word stress

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Word stress in Turkish: basic facts

5.2.1 Regular (word-final) prominence

5.2.2 Exceptional (non-final) stress

5.2.2.1 Exceptional root stress

5.2.2.2 Pre-stressing suffixes

5.2.2.3 Autostressed suffixes

5.2.2.4 Pre-pre-stressing suffixes

5.2.2.5 Prefixes and the reduplicant

5.3 Formal analysis of word-level stress/prominence

5.3.1 The current account

5.3.2 More on the intonational status of regular final prominence

5.4 An Optimality Theoretic analysis of stress and prominence in Turkish

5.4.1 Regular final prominence

5.4.2 Exceptional stress

5.4.2.1 Autostressed exceptional suffixes

5.4.2.2 Pre-stressing exceptional suffixes

5.4.2.3 Pre-pre-stressing exceptional suffixes

5.4.2.4 Exceptional root stress

5.4.2.5 Prefixes and the reduplicant

5.4.3 Discussion

5.5 Variation: cases that appear to be exceptions to exceptional stress

5.5.1 Apparent exceptions to pre-stressing suffixes

5.5.2 Apparent exceptions to autostressed suffixes

5.6 Inputs revisited

5.6.1 No restrictions on the shape of inputs

5.6.2 Gaps in the data accounted for vs. the alternatives

5.7 Conclusion

6 Higher-level prosody and its interface with syntax

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Prosodic Phonology

6.3 Turkish higher-level prosody

6.3.1 The Phonological Phrase (PPh)

6.3.2 The Intonational Phrase (IPh).

6.4 The syntax-prosody interface

6.4.1 Syntactic subject positions

6.4.2 Syntax informing prosody

6.5 Apparent exceptions? Or independent evidence for the current account?

6.5.1 Contrastive focus

6.5.2 Unergatives

6.5.3 Existentials

6.5.4 Overt indefinites

6.5.5 More "exceptions'' or lower-level prosody informing higher-level prosody?

6.6 Conclusion

References

Index

Author Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on September 19, 2024).

ISBN:

9780191965852

0191965855

9780192696779

0192696777

OCLC:

1456541261