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Author Wheeler, Max, 1946-

Title The phonology of Catalan / Max W. Wheeler
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 387 pages) : 1 map
Series The phonology of the world's languages
Phonology of the world's languages.
Contents Preface; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 PHONOLOGICAL PRIMITIVES AND SEGMENT INVENTORIES; 3 SYLLABLE STRUCTURE; 4 PHRASAL PHONOLOGY: VOWEL SANDHI; 5 CODA VOICING NEUTRALIZATION AND ASSIMILATION; 6 CODA PLACE AND MANNER ASSIMILATION AND NEUTRALIZATION; 7 CLUSTER REDUCTION; 8 EPENTHESIS AND OTHER SONORITY-RELATED PHENOMENA; 9 STRESS, FEET, AND PHRASES; 10 WORD PHONOLOGY AND PHONOLOGICALLY CONDITIONED ALLOMORPHY; 11 THE SYLLABIFICATION OF PRONOMINAL CLITICS; References; Index
Summary This is the most comprehensive account of Catalan phonology ever published. Approaching the subject a pragmatic version of orthodox Optimality Theory it describes the Spanish and French dialects of Catalan and the social and stylistic variations within them. This is likely to be the standard account of its subject for many years. - ;This is the most comprehensive account of Catalan phonology ever published. Catalan is a Romance language, occupying a position somewhere between French, Spanish, and Italian. It is the first language of six and a half million people in the northeastern Spain and o
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-381) and index
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Subject Catalan language -- Phonology
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Miscellaneous.
Catalan language -- Phonology
Fonologie.
Catalaans (taal)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191531590
0191531596
9780199258147
0199258147
9786610905195
6610905193