Simultaneous Structure in Phonology

by D Robert Ladd and D. Robert Ladd

In this book, D. Robert Ladd focuses on problems with the one-dimensional idealization of language on which much linguistic theory is based. Strings of sequentially-ordered elements play an important role as theoretical abstractions in both phonology and syntax. Yet many well-known phonological phenomena (such as vowel harmony, ablaut morphology, and pitch features) are problematic for this one-dimensional idealization, and many attempts (such as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199670978
• ISBN13: 9780199670970
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"