The lexical phonology of Slovak
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The lexical phonology of Slovak
（The phonology of the world's languages）
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1993
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book has both a descriptive and a theoretical purpose. It is the first full phonological description of Slovak, a language spoken by some four-and-a-half million people in Central and Eastern Europe; and it is a study of the theories of lexical, autosegmental, and prosodic phonology, with a particular emphasis on syllable structure.
In a synthesis of these two aims, the author demonstrates how the theories can be integrated in a description of a single language. Particular importance is attached to the problem of phonological representations which, it is shown, must be three-dimensional. Both the independence and the interaction of the melodic, skeletal, and syllabic tiers are investigated in detail.
The theoretical linguist will find here a detailed and comprehensive description of the language, deepened by an extensive debate on current phonological theory. For the Slavicist - of whatever theoretical persuasion - the book offers a discussion of the most recent theoretical developments in phonology, couched in the framework of a familiar type of linguistic material.
Table of Contents
- PART ONE: BACKGROUND
- PART TWO: CYCLIC RULES
- PART THREE: NONCYCLIC RULES
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