| Description |
1 online resource (292 pages) : illustrations |
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Studies in generative grammar ; 56 |
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Studies in generative grammar ; 56.
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| Contents |
Overview of Romanian phonology and morphology -- The phoneme inventory -- Phonotactics -- Syllable structure -- The representation of diphthongs -- The structure of the Romanian vocabulary -- Inflectional and derivational morphology -- Inflections -- Derivations -- The stress system -- Primary stress in verbs -- First and fourth conjugation verbs -- Third conjugation verbs -- Lexically marked exceptions -- Primary stress in nouns and adjectives -- Monomorphemic words: the unmarked pattern -- Monomorphemic nouns and adjectives: the marked pattern -- Morphologically complex words -- Secondary stress -- Hiatus resolution -- Vowel features and the representation of epenthetic glides -- The quality of the epenthetic glide -- Stress-dependent patterns -- Surface hiatus -- High vowel--glide alternations -- Word-initial glides -- Word-internal postvocalic glides -- Word-final postvocalic glides -- Underlying sequences of three vowels -- Central vowels and place harmony -- Post-consonantal glides and palatalization -- Post-consonantal glides and place co-occurrence restrictions -- Glides in morphologically derived forms -- Phonological and morphological palatalization -- Velar palatalization -- Morphological palatalization -- The diphthongs ea, oa and mid-low vowel alternations -- Data and previous analyses -- Vowel height and stress -- The phonological conditioning of mid-low vowel alternations -- The phonological behavior of ea and oa -- The phonological behavior of the low vowel a |
| Summary |
This book provides the first systematic descriptive analysis of the phonological system of Romanian, one of the less studied Romance languages, from the perspective of recent phonological theory. The author offers an account of some of the major phonological processes of modern standard Romanian, set in the framework of Optimality Theory and Correspondence Theory. The book begins with an overview of Romanian phonology - segment inventory, phonotactics, inflectional and derivational morphology. The main part of the study focuses on processes involving vocalic segments: glide-vowel and diphthong-vowel alternations, vowel harmony, palatalization. The major issues addressed include feature theory, syllable structure, metrical structure and stress, the interaction between phonology and morphology. Acoustic phonetic data is used as supporting evidence for the phonological patterning of diphthongs and glide-vowel sequences. Interesting complexities of the system are pointed out and discussed, as they pose certain challenges to the theoretical model. The book contains an abundance of systematically organized data, which makes it a solid reference for students and scholars of general and Romance phonology, and a strong basis for further study |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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In English |
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Print version record |
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| In |
Druckausg.: Chitoran, Ioana. Phonology of Romanian |
| Subject |
Romanian language -- Phonology
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Miscellaneous.
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Romanian language -- Phonology
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Optimalitätstheorie
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Phonologie
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Allophon
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Roemeens.
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Fonologie.
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Língua reto-românica (fonologia)
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Romanische Sprachen.
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Rumänisch.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783110889185 |
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3110889188 |
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