Syllable Weight in African Languages

Syllable Weight in African Languages
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages : 231
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ISBN-10 : 9789027265821
ISBN-13 : 9027265828
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Download or read book Syllable Weight in African Languages written by Paul Newman and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-04-12 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Syllable weight is a crucially important concept in the fields of phonology and morphology. It impacts analyses and explanation whether theoretical, typological, or descriptive. African linguistics was critical in the original development of the concept and, as this book demonstrates, the concept is critical to our understanding of complex phenomena in African languages, including stress, tone, allomorphy, minimal word requirements, and metrics. This volume includes a broad overview of syllable weight as a phonological variable and then provides detailed case studies covering an array of African languages from various phyla spoken across the continent. This should prove to be an essential book for scholars and students in the area of general phonology and African linguistics. The editor of the book, Distinguished Professor Paul Newman, is an internationally well-known expert on African linguistics in general and the Hausa language in particular. It was he who first introduced the term ‘syllable weight’ in a seminal article published nearly a half century ago.


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