Silbenschnitt Und Tonakzente (Linguistische Arbeiten)

by Peter Auer (Editor), Peter Gilles (Editor), Helmut Spiekermann (Editor)

This collection of articles deals with phonetic and phonological aspects of the prosodic concepts 'syllable cut' and 'tonal accent'. Syllable cut refers to the way in which a vowel is modified ('cut') by the consonant following it. As such, the concept of syllable cut is a prosodic approach representing a viable alternative to more segmentally defined concepts like vowel quantity or quality. Tonal accents establish lexical/phonological contrasts at word level with the help of contrasting intonation curves. The volume presents new findings on syllable cut and tonal accents from the following research historical phonology and graphemics, dialectology, auto-segmental phonology, acoustical phonetics, language typology.

294 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2002