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Vowel harmony is a well known phonological phenomenon found in a large number of languages spoken mainly in Eurasia and the African continent. In simple terms, vowel harmony is a law which governs the co-occurrence of vowels within a span of utterance, nearly always the word. The contributions of this volume focus on various (not always uncontroversial) aspects of vowel harmony that include typological investigations, phonetic/acoustic experimental studies, descriptions of individual systems, genetic and historical ramifications, and implications for a variety of theoretical models. This volum

Vowels. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Phonetics --- Sonorants (Phonetics) --- Vowels --- Phonology

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This monograph proposes a new interpretation of the intrasegmental structure of consonants and provides the first systematic intra- and cross-linguistic study of consonant prevocalization. The proposed model represents consonants as inherently bigestural and makes strong predictions that are automatically relevant to phonological theory at both the diachronic and synchronic levels, and also to the phonetics of articulatory evolution. It also clearly demonstrates that a wide generalization of the notion of consonant prevocalization provides a uniform account for many well-known processes genera

Consonants. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Vowels. --- Consonnes --- Phonologie --- Voyelles --- Phonology. --- Consonants --- Vowels --- Phonetics --- Sonorants (Phonetics) --- Phonology --- E-books --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Phonology

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Miglio argues that to assess the relative markedness of a segment, frequency of occurrence in vowel inventories is insufficient when considered on its own. In its analysis of the Great Vowel Shift, this book elaborates a more useful model of a unitary change even in a surface-oriented theory such as optimality theory, with the help of local conjunction. Miglio extends the device of local conjunction to model opaque relations, and calls for reranking and lexicon optimization as the means to capture change within optimality theory.

Vowels. --- Markedness (Linguistics) --- Optimality theory (Linguistics) --- Typology (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Language and languages --- Linguistic typology --- Linguistics --- Linguistic universals --- Optimality (Linguistics) --- Optimization (Linguistics) --- Generative grammar --- Marked member (Linguistics) --- Distinctive features (Linguistics) --- Phonetics --- Sonorants (Phonetics) --- Typology --- Classification --- Vowels --- Phonology

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This volume seeks to reevaluate the nature of tone-segment interactions in phonology. The contributions address, among other things, the following basic questions: what tone-segment interactions exist, and how can the facts be incorporated into phonological theory? Are interactions between tones and vowel quality really universally absent? What types of tone-consonant interactions do we find across languages? What is the relation between diachrony and synchrony in relevant processes?The contributions discuss data from various types of languages where tonal information plays a lexically distinctive role, from 'pure' tone languages to so-called tone accent systems, where the occurrence of contrastive tonal melodies is restricted to stressed syllables. The volume has an empirical emphasis on Franconian dialects in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, but also discusses languages as diverse as Slovenian, Livonian, Fuzhou Chinese, and Xhosa.

Tone (Phonetics) --- Intonation (Phonetics) --- Vowels --- Consonants --- Sonorants (Phonetics) --- Prosodic analysis (Linguistics) --- Phonetics --- Articulatory phonetics --- Orthoepy --- Phonology --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Language and languages --- Linguistics --- Pitch (Phonetics) --- Lexical tone (Phonetics) --- Tone languages --- Tonology (Phonetics) --- Multidimensional phonology --- Polysystemic phonology --- Prosodic phonology --- Speaking styles --- Research --- Intonation --- Tone --- E-books --- Sound --- Speech --- Voice --- Oral interpretation --- Phonemics --- Vowels. --- Consonants. --- Research. --- Phonology. --- Prosody. --- Tone.

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Linguists researching the sounds of languages do not just study lists of sounds but seek to discover generalizations about sound patterns by grouping them into categories. They study the common properties of each category and identify what distinguishes one category from another. Vowel patterns, for instance, are analysed and compared across languages to identify phonological similarities and differences. This account of vowel patterns in language brings a wealth of cross-linguistic material to the study of vowel systems and offers theoretical insights. Informed by research in speech perception and production, it addresses the fundamental question of how the relative prominence of word position influences vowel processes and distributions. The book combines a cross-linguistic focus with detailed case studies. Descriptions and analyses are provided for vowel patterns in over 25 languages from around the world, with particular emphasis on minor Romance languages and on the diachronic development of the German umlaut.

Vowels. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Language and languages --- Word order --- Word order. --- Vowels --- Voyelles --- Order (Grammar) --- Phonetics --- Sonorants (Phonetics) --- Phonology --- Historical linguistics --- Linguistique historique --- Phonologie --- Phonology. --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Phonology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Phonology