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Phonemics. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Phonetics --- Phonology

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Morphophonemics --- Congresses. --- Morphophonologie --- Congresses --- Congrès --- Allomorphs (Linguistics) --- Morphophonology --- Morphemics --- Phonemics

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Autosegmental Studies on Pitch Accent Linguistic Models

Tone (Phonetics) --- Autosegmental theory. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Language and languages --- Lexical tone (Phonetics) --- Tone languages --- Tonology (Phonetics) --- Phonemics --- Phonetics --- Tone --- Phonology

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The sounds of language can be divided into consonants, vowels, and tones - the use of pitch to convey word meaning. Seventy percent of the world's languages use pitch in this way. Assuming little or no prior knowledge of the topic, this textbook provides a clearly organized introduction to tone and tonal phonology. Comprehensive in scope, it examines the main types of tonal systems found in Africa, the Americas, and Asia, using examples from the widest possible range of tone languages. It provides students with a basic grasp of the simple phonetics of tone, and covers key topics such as the distinctive feature systems suitable for tonal contrasts, allophonic and morphophonological tonal alterations, and how to analyze them within Optimality Theory. The book also examines the perception and acquisition of tone, as well as the interface between tonal phonology and the morphosyntax.

Tone (Phonetics) --- Optimality theory (Linguistics) --- Optimality theory (Linguistics). --- Tone (Phonetics). --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Language and languages --- Lexical tone (Phonetics) --- Tone languages --- Tonology (Phonetics) --- Phonemics --- Phonetics --- Optimality (Linguistics) --- Optimization (Linguistics) --- Generative grammar --- Tone --- Phonology --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics

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This book is relevant for phonologists, morphologists, Slavists and cognitive linguists, and addresses two questions: How can the morphology-phonology interface be accommodated in cognitive linguistics? Do morphophonological alternations have a meaning? These questions are explored via a comprehensive analysis of stem alternations in Russian verbs. The analysis is couched in R.W. Langacker's Cognitive Grammar framework, and the book offers comparisons to other varieties of cognitive linguistics, such as Construction Grammar and Conceptual Integration. The proposed analysis is furthermore compared to rule-based and constraint-based approaches to phonology in generative grammar. Without resorting to underlying representations or procedural rules, the Cognitive Linguistics framework facilitates an insightful approach to abstract phonology, offering the important advantage of restrictiveness. Cognitive Grammar provides an analysis of an entire morphophonological system in terms of a parsimonious set of theoretical constructs that all have cognitive motivation. No ad hoc machinery is invoked, and the analysis yields strong empirical predictions. Another advantage is that Cognitive Grammar can identify the meaning of morphophonological alternations. For example, it is argued that stem alternations in Russian verbs conspire to signal non-past meaning. This book is accessible to a broad readership and offers a welcome contribution to phonology and morphology, which have been understudied in cognitive linguistics.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Morphophonemics. --- Cognitive grammar. --- Russian language --- Cognitive linguistics --- Psycholinguistics --- Allomorphs (Linguistics) --- Morphophonology --- Morphemics --- Phonemics --- Phonology --- Phonology. --- Verb. --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Phonology --- Cognitive Linguistics. --- Russian (Language).