Suprasegmentals

by Ilse Lehiste

"A phonologist ignores phonetics at his own peril," remarks Professor Lehiste, whose work in acoustic phonetics and in historical and descriptive phonology over the past decade has resulted in this important experimental study of the linguistic function of suprasegmentals. The author assembles and summarizes what is currently known about the phonetic nature of suprasegmentals and evaluates the available evidence from the point of view of linguistic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262120232
• ISBN13: 9780262120234
• Release Date: January 1970
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.