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Lexical Phonology of Slovak by Zerzy Rubach
A full phonological description of the Slovak language and an investigation of recent developments in phonological theory, this study explains new theories and illustrates them by application to a large body of data.This book has both a descriptive and a theoretical purpose. It is the first full phonological description of Slovak, a language spoken by some four-and-a-half million people in Central and Eastern Europe; and it is a study of the theories of lexical, autosegmental, and prosodic phonology, with a particular emphasis on syllable structure. In a synthesis of these two aims, the author demonstrates how the theories can be integrated in a description of a single language. Particular importance is attached to the problem of phonological representations which, it is shown, must be three-dimensional. Both the independence and the interaction of the melodic, skeletal, and syllabic tiers are investigated in detail. The theoretical linguist will find here a detailed and comprehensive description of the language, deepened by an extensive debate on current phonological theory. For the Slavicist - of whatever theoretical persuasion - the book offers a discussion of the most recent theoretical developments in phonology, couched in the framework of a familiar type of linguistic material. |
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| Author(s) : Zerzy Rubach | Format : Hardback Book |
| ISBN-10 : 0198240007 | ISBN-13 : 9780198240006 |
| RRP : £99.00 | Best available price : £ / $ |
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Product Details:
Series Title : Phonology of the World's Languages S.
Country Publication : United Kingdom
Publication Date : 29/07/1993
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page Length : 328mm
Page Size : 234mm