Syllable Weight: Phonetics, Phonology, Typology

by Matthew S. Gordon

The book is the first systematic exploration of a series of phonological phenomena previously thought to be unified under the rubric of syllable weight. Drawing on a typological survey of 400 languages, it is shown that the traditional conception that languages are internally consistent in their weight criteria across weight-based processes is not corroborated by the cross-linguistic survey. Rather than being consistent across phenomena within individual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415861519
• ISBN13: 9780415861519
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"