Online phonology book (was: Re: Amman-Iar stress & gemination)
| From: | taliesin the storyteller <taliesin@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, February 29, 2000, 21:34 |
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* And Rosta (a.rosta@pmail.net) [000221 10:17]:
> I suggest that the actual rule is:
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> Case endings must follow a branching rime. [= a heavy syllable]
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> The suffix "-e" is therefore specified thus:
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> R O + R
> / \ | |
> X X X X
> |
> e
A quick overview of structures like these can be found in the book at
http://www.sil.org/americas/mexico/ling/Phonology-Marlett/E004-Phon.htm,
specifically chapters 34-36. I like what I've seen of this book so far,
it seems well suited for our purposes as it is more of a `phonology for
field-linguists' or `applied phonology' than it is a dry and theoretical
deep-dive into some phonological theory or other, generative or not.
It seems a bit on the light side when it comes to stress and intonation :(
The appendices are nice too, but there doesn't seem to be a bibliography
for the entire thing, but one per section instead. Plus there are footnotes
and not endnotes; can't stand the latter :)
t.