LINGUIST List 10.691

Thu May 6 1999

Books: Phonology

Editor for this issue: Scott Fults <scottlinguistlist.org>

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1. Rint Sybesma, Y. Yoshida, Pitch Accent Phenomena in Standard Japanese

Now available from Thesus -- Holland Academic Graphics --
<http://www.hagpub.com>;

Yuko Yoshida
Pitch Accent Phenomena in Standard Japanese

This thesis contains three major proposals. First, the work as a whole
is devoted to expansion of the notion of phonological licensing domain
from the domain of a syllabic constituent and a combination of
constituents (Kaye, Lowenstamm and Vergnaud 1990) to that of a word,
and to that of various types of phrases. The second claim relates to
the formalisation of accent assignment in Standard Japanese, based on
binary right-headed licensing between nuclei. The second point leads
directly to the third issue, the clarification of prosodic typology:
tone languages vs. stress/pitch accent languages.

Contents 
1. Licensing in phonology 2. Previous treatments of pitch accent in
Japanese 3. Phonological licensing and high pitch assignment 4.
Morphology and pitch accent 5. Phrasal interaction of pitch accent

1995/1999. x + 234 pp. SOAS Dissertations in Linguistics 1. ISBN
90-5569-090-2. Paperback. Price: EUR 27.08. (Individuals ordering
directly from Holland Academic Graphics are eligible for a 33%
discount.)


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