Phonological Typology

by Matthew K. Gordon

Book Overview

This book provides an overview of phonological typology: the study of how sounds are distributed across the languages of the world and why they display these distributions and patterns. It examines major phonological phenomena such as phoneme inventories, syllable structure, phonological alternations, stress, tone, intonation, and prosodic morphology, and investigates issues including how common certain types of sounds are cross-linguistically and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199669007
• ISBN13: 9780199669004
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 9.7"