Eintrag

Titel

A Survey of Word Accentual Patterns in the Languages of the World

Personen

Harry Hulst, Rob Goedemans, Ellen Zanten

Jahr

2010

Typ

Sammelband

Verlag

Mouton de Gruyter

Ort

Amsterdam, Berlin, New York

Reihe

[X] in the Languages of the World [XLW]

Schlagwörter

Prosodie
Wortakzent

Abstract

This volume contains a wealth of information on the word accentual (metrical, stress) phenomena that we encounter in natural languages. Two types of information are provided: language profiles in 'tabular form' and survey articles. Of the total of ten chapters in Part I, three are general in nature, while the other seven describe and analyze word accentual systems in all continents. The volume's point of departure is a database called StressTyp. StressTyp developed into a database on word prosodic systems of the languages of the world. The over 500 languages, representing a wide geographical distribution, taken from the StressTyp database are represented in this volume. For all these languages, information regarding identity, sources and stress location(s) are included, accompanied by some examples in nearly all cases. These language data packages are organized by language family. This information constitutes Part II of the volume.

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