This book presents a comprehensive, contrastive account of the phonological structures and characteristics of Icelandic and Faroese. It is written for Nordic linguists and theoretical phonologists interested in what the languages reveal about phonological structure and change and the relation between morphology, phonology, and phonetics. INDICE: Part One: The Historical and Theoretical Setting; 1: The Two Languages and Their Historical Relation; 2: The Historical Development; 3: Theoretical Preliminaries to the Synchronic Analysis; Part Two: The Modern Sound Systems; 4: The Icelandic Vowel Colours and Diphthongs; 5: Faroese Vowels and Diphthongs; 6: Icelaneic Consonants; 7: Faroese Consonant Segments; Part Three: Systemic Relations and Syllabic Structure; 8: Systemic Relations in Vowels; 9: Syllable Structure and Phonotactics; 10: Length and Quantity in Accentuation andPhonotactics; Part Four: Segments and Syllables on Phonological Levels; 11: Aspiration in Syllabic and Segmental Structure; 12: Allomorphy, Morphophonemics, and Phonological Levels; Part Five: Rhythmic Structure; 13: Word Stress Patterns in Icelandic and Faroese; 14: Phrasing and Postlexical Phonology; 15: Rhythm and Intonation
- ISBN: 978-0-19-922931-4
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 384
- Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés