A Survey Of Word Accentual Patterns In The Languages Of The World

Goedemans, Rob (Editor)/ Van Der Hulst, Harry (Editor)/ Van Zanten, Ellen (Editor)

ISBN 10: 311019631X / ISBN 13: 9783110196313

Published by Mouton De Gruyter, 2010

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Title: A Survey Of Word Accentual Patterns In The ...

Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter

Publication Date: 2010

Binding: Hardcover

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Synopsis:

In this volume, there is an introductory chapter (Chapter 1) that will provide the reader with elementary terminology and theoretical tools to understand the variety of accentual systems that will be discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. Chapter 2 has a double function. It presents an overview of stress patterns in Australian languages, but at the same time it is intended to (re-)familiarize readers with the coding, terminology and theoretical ideas of the StressTyp database. Chapter 11 presents statistical and typological information from the StressTyp database. Part II of this volume contains 'language profiles' which are, for each of the 511 languages contained in StressTyp (in 2009), extracts from the information that is contained in the database.

Review:

"A Survey of Word Accentual Patterns in the Languages of the World might well be unrivaled thus as *the* place to begin a study of stress in the world's languages."
Karen Steffen Chung in: Linguist List 23.1573

"This book will introduce StressTyp to a much wider audience, and in turn will likely inspire more typological research on the world's stress systems. It will also serve as an excellent reference since there is a lot of data included."
Mary Paster, Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science,
Pomona College