LINGUIST List 13.1594

Tue Jun 4 2002

Books: The Phonology of Romanian, Ioana Chitoran

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  • Julia Ulrich, The Phonology of Romanian: A Constraint-Based Approach by Ioana Chitoran

    Message 1: The Phonology of Romanian: A Constraint-Based Approach by Ioana Chitoran

     Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 17:31:39 +0200
    From: Julia Ulrich <Julia.UlrichdeGruyter.com>
    Subject: The Phonology of Romanian: A Constraint-Based Approach by Ioana Chitoran


    >From the series Studies in Generative Grammar Series Editors: Harry van der Hulst, Jan Koster, Henk van Riemsdijk

    Ioana Chitoran

    THE PHONOLOGY OF ROMANIAN A CONSTRAINT-BASED APPROACH

    2001. 23 x 15,5 cm. xiii, 269 pages. Cloth. Euro 84.00 / sFr 134,- / approx. US$ 84.00 ISBN 3-11-016766-2

    (STUDIES IN GENERATIVE GRAMMAR 56)

    The Phonology of Romanian offers the first systematic descriptive analysis of the phonological system of Romanian, one of the less well studied Romance languages. The author proposes an account of some of the major phonological processes of modern standard Romanian, set in the framework of Optimality Theory and Correspondence Theory.

    Although the historical development of Romanian from Latin has been thoroughly studied by both Romanian and foreign linguists, accounts of the synchronic phonology of the language are harder to come by. The present book provides an overview of Romanian phonology: segment inventory, phonotactics, inflectional and derivational morphology. The main part of the study focuses on processes involving vocalic segments, which form the thread of the entire phonology of the language. These processes include glide-vowel and diphthong-vowel alternations, vowel harmony, palatalization. Acoustic phonetic data is used as supporting evidence for the phonological patterning of diphthongs and glide-vowel sequences.

    The major theoretical issues addressed include: feature theory, syllable structure, metrical structure and stress, the interaction between phonology and morphology. Interesting complexities of the system are pointed out and discussed, as they pose certain challenges to the theoretical model. The book contains a large amount of systematically organized data, which makes it a solid reference for students and scholars of general and Romance phonology, and a strong basis for further study.

    >From the Contents

    Introduction

    Overview of Romanian phonology and morphology

    The stress system

    Hiatus resolution

    High Vowel - glide alternations

    Post-consonantal glides and palatalization

    The dipthongs ea, oa and mid-low vowel alternations

    Conclusions and issues for further research

    For more information please contact the publisher:

    Mouton de Gruyter Genthiner Str. 13 10785 Berlin, Germany Fax: +49 30 26005 222 e-mail: ordersdegruyter.de

    Please visit our website for other publications by Mouton de Gruyter http://www.degruyter.com



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