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3 unusual facts about Phonology


Phonetic sciences

Phonology, the study of the sound system of a specific language (or languages)

Phonology

In addition to the minimal units that can serve the purpose of differentiating meaning (the phonemes), phonology studies how sounds alternate, i.e. replace one another in different forms of the same morpheme (allomorphs), as well as, for example, syllable structure, stress, feature geometry, accent, and intonation.

The principles of natural phonology were extended to morphology by Wolfgang U. Dressler, who founded natural morphology.


Adolf Erman

Erman's pupils include James Henry Breasted, America's first Professor of Egyptology with his numerous works including his History of Egypt from the Earliest Times Down to the Persian Conquest (1905) and Georg Steindorff's little Koptische Grammatik (1894, ed. 1904), improving greatly on Stern's standard work in regard to phonology and the relationship of Coptic forms to Egyptian, and Sethe's Das Ägyptische Verbum (1899).

Autosegmental phonology

Autosegmental phonology is the name of a framework of phonological analysis proposed by John Goldsmith in his PhD thesis in 1976 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Belarusian phonology

As an East Slavic language, Belarusian phonology is very similar to Russian phonology, and also rather similar to Ukrainian phonology.

Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale

It publishes articles in English, French and Mandarin Chinese, and covers a wide range of topics including Generative syntax, Linguistic typologyPhonetics, Phonology and Historical linguistics on all languages of the Sino-Tibetan, Austro-Asiatic, Austronesian, Hmong-Mien, Kra-Dai, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic families, as well as on Japanese, Korean and Ainu.

Chiappetta

Rather than indicating a different origin for the name Chiappetti, it is understood that this is an adaptation of the word Chiappetta to the phonology typical of the Sardinian language.

Danish language

Basbøll, Hans (2005) The Phonology of Danish ISBN 0-19-824268-9

English in the Commonwealth of Nations

South Asian English phonology is highly variable; stress, rhythm and intonation are generally different from those of native varieties.

Ida C. Ward

Ida Caroline Ward (4 October 1880, Bradford – 10 October 1949, Guildford) was a British linguist working mainly on African languages who did influential work in the domains of phonology and tonology.

Jon Bilbao

He also followed the courses in Phonetics and Phonology taught by Tomás Navarro Tomás.

Kimmo Koskenniemi

This application of finite-state transducers to phonology and morphology was initially implemented for Finnish, but it soon proved to be useful for other languages with complex morphology such as Basque.

Max Mangold

Max Mangold (born May 8, 1922 in the village of Pratteln near Basel, Switzerland) taught phonetics, phonology and linguistic theory at the University of the Saarland in Germany.

Milan Moguš

For a long time he was a member of International Committee for Onomastic Science in Leuven, and member of International Committee for Phonetics and Phonology of Slavic Languages in Moscow and also President of the Interacademic Committee of Onomastics in Zagreb.

Morelos Nahuatl

But Tetelcingo Nahuatl is usually considered a separate variety due to its highly innovative phonology, and has very low mutual intelligibility with the other Morelos variants.

Morris Halle

He is best known for his pioneering work in generative phonology, having written "On Accent and Juncture in English" in 1956 with Noam Chomsky and Fred Lukoff and The Sound Pattern of English in 1968 with Chomsky.

O dialecto crioulo de Cabo Verde

The book is a description of the Cape Verdean Creole including the grammar, the phonology and the lexicon.

Proto-Anatolian language

However, the usage of Hittite cuneiform writing system limits the enterprise of understanding and reconstructing Anatolian phonology, partly due to the deficiency of the adopted Akkadian cuneiform syllabary to represent Hittite sounds, and partly due to the Hittite scribal practices.

Rime table

Their meaning remains the most controversial aspect of rime table phonology, but is believed to indicate palatalization (transcribed as the presence or absence of -j- or -i-), retroflex features, vowel quality (high vs. low or front vs. back) or some combination of these.

Sergei Yakhontov

translation by Jerry Norman: "Chinese phonology of the 1st millennium BC, Part I", Unicorn 1 (1968): 47–65, "Chinese phonology of the 1st millennium BC, Part II", Unicorn 6 (1970): 52–75.

Sharon Inkelas

Her recent research pursuits include cophonology theory, affix ordering, child phonology, and analysis of Turkish.

Sichuanese Pinyin

However, there is also the problem that it is unable to exactly match the phonology of Sichuanese with complete precision, especially in the case for the Minjiang dialect, as there are many differences between Sichuanese and Standard Chinese in phonology.

Standard Zhuang

The phonology is essentially that of Shuangqiao, with the addition of ny, ei, ou from Fuliang, both located in Wuming County.

Terza rima

Although a difficult form to use in English because of the relative paucity of rhyme words available in a language which has, in comparison with Italian, a more complex phonology, terza rima has been used by Wyatt, Milton, Byron (in his Prophecy of Dante) and Shelley (in his Ode to the West Wind and The Triumph of Life).

Winfred P. Lehmann

In his last book (2002), he assembled extensive data from the nominal and verbal systems, from the lexicon, phonology, and syntax of the ancient IE languages, to argue that Pre-Indo-European was active/stative in alignment, rather than nominative/accusative.

Xiongnu

In 2000, Alexander Vovin reanalyzed Pulleyblank's argument and found further support for it by utilizing the most recent reconstruction of Old Chinese phonology by Starostin and Baxter and a single Chinese transcription of a sentence in the language of the Jie (a member tribe of the Xiongnu confederacy).


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