Research Catalog

Title

The phonology of German / Richard Wiese.

Author

Wiese, Richard, 1953-

Publication

Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

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Details

Description

ix, 351 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

In this book Richard Wiese provides the most complete and up-to-date description presently available of the phonology of German. Starting with a presentation of phonemes and their features, the author then describes in detail syllables, higher prosodic units, phonological conditions of word formation, patterns of redundancy for features, phonological rules, and rules of stress for words and phrases, giving particular emphasis to the interaction of morphology and phonology. He focuses on the present-day standard language, but includes occasional discussion of other variants and registers. The study is informed by recent models in phonological theory, and for phonologists and morphologists it provides both a rich source of material and a critical discussion of current problems and their solutions. It also serves as an introduction to the sound system of German for the non-specialist reader.

Series Statement

The phonology of the world's languages

Uniform Title

Phonology of the world's languages

Subject

• German language > Phonology
• 18.08 German language
• Fonologie
• Duits

Genre/Form

Textbooks (form)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [336]-348) and indexes.

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. The Phoneme System of German -- 3. The Prosodic Structure of German -- 4. Prosodic Morphology -- 5. Aspects of Lexical Phonology and Morphology -- 6. Underspecification: An Analysis of Markedness and Defaults -- 7. Phonological Rules and Alternations -- 8. Word Stress, Compound Stress, Phrase Stress -- 9. Concluding Remarks.

ISBN

• 0198240406
• 9780198240402
• 0199613559
• 9780199613557

LCCN

95022081

OCLC

• ocm32699853
• 32699853
• SCSB-2081360

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library