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Slavic Prosody Christina Y. Bethin (State University of New York)

Slavic Prosody By Christina Y. Bethin (State University of New York)

Summary

Slavic Prosody, first published in 1998, is about the Slavic languages and how they have changed over time, especially in their syllable structure and accent patterns. This is not a traditional comparative grammar but rather a discussion of selected problems in Slavic and how they relate to contemporary linguistic theory.

Slavic Prosody Summary

Slavic Prosody: Language Change and Phonological Theory by Christina Y. Bethin (State University of New York)

In Slavic Prosody, first published in 1998, Professor Bethin gives a coherent account of the Slavic languages at the time of their differentiation and relates these developments to issues in phonological theory. First Professor Bethin argues that the syllable structure of Slavic changed before the fall of the jers and suggests that intrasyllabic and intersyllabic reorganization in Late Common Slavic was far more significant for Slavic prosody than the loss of weak jers. She then makes a case for the existence of a bisyllabic prosodic domain in Late Common Slavic and trochaic metrical organization. Finally, she explores the implications of Slavic data for phonological theory, discussing sonority, skeletal structure, the representation of length and prominence, and language typology in some detail.

Slavic Prosody Reviews

The book is a rich in information, Slavicists will enjoy the thorough historiography of their field; non-Slavicists will appreciate the detailed explications of Slavic data; all will welcome the many clear diagrams spelling out the author's claims....no one can deny that her book is a major contribution, an accomplishment that neither Slavicists nor phonlogists can afford to ignore. Slavic Review

Table of Contents

Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The syllable in Slavic: form and function; 2. Beyond the syllable: prominence relations; 3. Theoretical considerations; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index.

Additional information

NPB9780521591485
9780521591485
0521591481
Slavic Prosody: Language Change and Phonological Theory by Christina Y. Bethin (State University of New York)
New
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
1998-07-13
366
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