Syllable structure: the limits of variation
"This book looks at the range of possible syllables in human languages. The syllable is a central notion in phonology, yet basic questions about it remain poorly understood and phonologists are divided on even the most elementary issues. For example, the word city has been syllabified as ci-ty...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "This book looks at the range of possible syllables in human languages. The syllable is a central notion in phonology, yet basic questions about it remain poorly understood and phonologists are divided on even the most elementary issues. For example, the word city has been syllabified as ci-ty (the 'maximal onset' analysis), cit-y (the 'no-open-lax-V' analysis), and cit-ty (the 'geminate C' analysis). San Duanmu explores and clarifies these and many other related issues through an in-depth analysis of the entire lexicons of several languages." "His clear exposition will appeal to phonologists and advanced students and will provide a new benchmark in syllabic and prosodic analysis. He also offers an answer to the intriguing question: how different can human languages be?"--BOOK JACKET. |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Notes on Transcription xiv
1. INTRODUCTION 1
1.1. Common terms describing syllable structure 5
1.1.1. Summary of syllable terms 9
2. FEATURES, SOUNDS, COMPLEX SOUNDS, AND
THE NO CONTOUR PRINCIPLE 11
2.1. What is a sound? 11
2.1.1. What is a minimal sound? 12
2.1.2. Slicing or not? 14
2.1.3. Defining the speech sound 16
2.2. Features 18
2.3. Representing affricates 21
2.4. Are features innate? 22
2.5. Sample sounds in features 23
2.6. Complex sounds and the No Contour Principle 25
2.6.1. Affricates 28
2.6.2. Palatals and consonant-approximant
clusters 29
2.6.3. VNC clusters 30
2.6.4. [V?] clusters 31
2.7. Consonants vs. vowels 31
2.8. Length and diphthongs 32
2.9. Underspecification 32
2.10. Sounds vs. phonemes 33
2.11. Summary 35
3. THEORIES OF SYLLABLE STRUCTURE 36
3.1. Defining the syllable 36
3.2. Maximal syllable size and word-edge
consonants 37
3.3. Empty elements and the CV-only analysis 38
VI CONTENTS
3.4. The CVX theory 40
3.4.1. Sonority, the peak rule, and the C rule 41
3.4.2. Onset clusters: sonority analysis vs.
complex-sound analysis 43
3.4.3. WN and VNC rhymes 44
3.4.4. V:C rhymes 45
3.4.5. Morphology and word-edge consonants 46
3.4.6. Can [lp] be an onset or [pi] be a coda? 50
3.4.7. Summary 51
3.5. Syllable boundaries 52
3.5.1. Speaker intuition 52
3.5.2. The Law of Initials (LOI) and the Law of
Finals (LOF) 54
3.5.3. Maximizing stressed syllables 56
3.5.4. Maximal Onset 56
3.5.5. The Weight-Stress Principle (WSP) 58
3.5.6. Aspiration, flapping, and sounds at
word-medial syllable boundaries 59
3.5.7. Summary 63
3.6. The alan alternation and the linking [r] 64
3.7. Epenthetic vowels between consonants 66
3.8. Are there parameters for the maximal syllable
size? 66
3.9. The spotty-data problem 68
3.10. Summary 69
4. SYLLABLE STRUCTURE IN CHINESE 72
4.1. Syllable boundaries 72
4.2. The onset: obligatory or optional? 73
4.3. The analysis of CG 76
4.4. Structure of stressed syllables 78
4.5. Structure of unstressed syllables 80
4.6. Casual speech and vowel-less syllables 81
4.7. Final vs. non-final positions 82
4.8. CWC syllables 82
4.8.1. WC rhymes in Cantonese 82
4.8.2. WC rhymes in Fuzhou 84
4.9. Summary 85
5. STANDARD CHINESE 86
5.1. Sound inventory and tones 86
CONTENTS Vil
5.2. Syllable inventory 89
5.2.1. Syllable frequencies and homophone density 89
5.2.2. Phoneme frequencies 93
5.2.3. Onset and rhyme frequencies 94
5.2.4. Tonal frequencies 95
5.3. Accounting for missing syllables 96
5.4. The M-suffix 103
5.5. Syllabic consonants 105
5.6. Homophone density, frequency, and syllable loss 108
5.7. Summary 111
6. SHANGHAI CHINESE 112
6.1. Consonant inventory 114
6.2. GVX inventory 114
6.3. Analysis of the GVX inventory 116
6.4. Frequency data on syllables in Mainstream Shanghai 121
6.4.1. Syllable frequencies and homophone density 121
6.4.2. Sound frequencies 123
6.4.3. Tonal frequencies 124
6.5. Combinations between C and GVX 126
6.6. Summary 128
7. SYLLABLE AND TONE 129
7.1. Simple and complex rhymes 131
7.2. Rhyme structure and tone loss 132
7.3. Rhyme structure and tone split 137
7.4. Rhyme structure and tonal inventory 144
7.5. Summary 146
8. ENGLISH I: THE MAXIMAL SYLLABLE SIZE 148
8.1. Rhymes in non-final positions 149
8.2. Word-final rhymes 154
8.3. Onset clusters in word-initial positions 159
8.4. Onset clusters in non-initial positions 160
8.5. Analyzing onset clusters 165
8.5.1. Which onset clusters should be
accounted for? 166
8.5.2. The sonority-based analysis 168
8.5.3. The complex-sound analysis 174
8.5.4. Summary of onset analysis 179
8.6. Summary 179
VIH CONTENTS
9. ENGLISH II: SYLLABLE INVENTORY
AND RELATED ISSUES 182
9.1. Sound inventory 182
9.2. Unused syllables in English 186
9.3. Accounting for unused syllables 189
9.4. Syllables in polysyllabic words 194
9.5. Morpheme inventories in English and Chinese 197
9.6. Diphthongs 199
9.7. Voicing in coda consonants, syllabification, and
vowel length 202
9.8. Summary 205
10. GERMAN 207
10.1. Sound inventory 208
10.2. Rhyme size in non-final positions 209
10.3. Final rhymes 213
10.4. Initial onsets 215
10.5. Non-initial onsets 215
10.6. Analysis of onsets 216
10.7. Onset clusters listed in other studies 220
10.8. Another look at word-final clusters 221
10.9. Summary 222
11. JIARONG (rGYALRONG) 224
11.1. Onset clusters in Jiarong 225
11.1.1. Previous analyses 226
11.1.2. Present analysis 228
11.1.3. Summary 230
11.2. Coda clusters 231
11.2.1. Previous analyses 231
11.2.2. Present analysis 232
11.2.3. Summary 234
11.3. A historical perspective 234
11.4. Summary 235
12. THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS 237
12.1. The CVX theory and its predictions 237
12.2. The CVX theory and theories of grammar 239
12.2.1. Tabula rasa 239
12.2.2. Substantive and formal universals 240
CONTENTS IX
12.2.3. Principles and parameters 241
12.2.4. Optimality Theory and inviolable
constraints 241
12.3. Preference constraints and inventory selection 244
12.4. The Weight-Stress Principle (WSP) and the CV effect 245
12.5. What is the syllable and why is it so small? 248
12.6. What is universal grammar? 251
12.7. Syllable inventory, holes, and outliers 251
12.8. Summary 254
References 257
Author Index 269
Language Index 272
Subject Index 273
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