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Title Tones and features:
phonetic and phonological perspectives.
Author(s) Goldsmith, John A., ed.
Hume, Elizabeth, ed.
Local Call Num. P 217 .T66 2010
ISBN 978-3-11-024621-6
3-110246211-0
Status This item is currently IN the library.
Series Studies in Generative Grammar.
Pages xii, 369 p.
Publishing Info Boston, MA De Gruyter Mouton. 2010
Loan Type/Days REG-Regular / This item may circulate for 21 Days
Department MIS-Miscellaneous
Media BK-Book
Volume/Issue 107
Subjects Phonetics.
Grammar, Comparative and general--Phonology.
 
Description ill.; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Third editor: W. Leo Wetzels.

Summary:
"This volume includes papers by leading figures in phonetics and phonology on two topics central to phonological theory: tones and phonological features. Papers address a wide range of topics bearing on tones and features including their formal representation and phonetic foundation."--Publisher's website.

Contents:
Preface / John Goldsmith, Elizabeth Hume, and W. Leo Wetzels --
The representation and nature of tone. Do we need tone features? / G.N. Clements, Alexis Michaud and Ce?dric Patin --
Rhythm, quantity and tone in the Kinyarwanda verb / John Goldsmith and Fide?le Mpiranya --
Do tones have features? / Larry M Hyman --
Features impinging on tone / David Odden --
Downstep and linguistic scaling in Dagara-Wule? / Annie Rialland and Penou-Achille Some? --
The representation and nature of phonological features. Crossing the quantal boundaries of features: subglottal resonance and Swabian dipthongs / Grzegorz Dogil, Steven M. Lulich, Andreas Madsack, and Wolfgang Wokurek --
Voice assimilation in French obstruents: categorical or gradient? / Pierre A Halle? and Martine Adda-Decker --
An acoustic study of the Korean fricatives "/s", "s'/": implications for the features "[spread glottis]" and "[tense]" / Hyunsoon Kim and Chae-Lim Park --
Autosegmental spreading in Optimality Theory / John J. McCarthy --
Evaluating the effectiveness of Unified Feature Theory and three other feature systems / Jeff Mielke, Lyra Magloughlin and Elizabeth Hume --
Language-independent bases of distinctive features / Rachid Ridouane, G.N. Clements and Rajesh Khatiwada --
Representation of complex segments in Bulgarian / Jerzy Rubach --
Proposals for a representation of sounds based on their main acoustico-perpetual properties / Jacqueline Vasissiere --
The representation of vowel features and vowel neutralization in Brazilian portuese (southern dialects) / W. Leo Wetzels.