Evolutionary Phonology: The Emergence of Sound Patterns - Couverture souple

Blevins, Juliette

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521043646 ISBN 13 : 9780521043649

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2007

Synopsis

Evolutionary Phonology is a theory of sound patterns which synthesizes results in historical linguistics, phonetics and phonological theory. In this book, Juliette Blevins explores the nature of sounds patterns and sound change in human language over the past 7000–8000 years, the time depth for which the comparative method is reasonably reliable. This book presents an approach to the problem of how genetically unrelated languages, from families as far apart as Native American, Australian Aboriginal, Austronesian and Indo-European, can often show similar sound patterns, and also tackles the converse problem of why there are notable exceptions to most of the patterns that are often regarded as universal tendencies or constraints. It argues that in both cases, a formal model of sound change that integrates phonetic variation and patterns of misperception can account for attested sound systems without reference to markedness or naturalness within the synchronic grammar.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Juliette Blevins was formerly Visiting Professor at the Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, and joined the Department of Linguistics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, in Fall 2004.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0521043646
• ISBN 13: 9780521043649
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 388
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible