Basque Phonology (interface Series)
by Jose Ignacio Hualde /
1991 / English / PDF
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This book is the first comprehensive treatment of the
phonological system of Basque available in English. Basque is a
morphologically rich and fairly regular language with a number of
active phonological rules that are limited to certain
morphological environments. In addition, it has a high degree of
dialectical fragmentation. These characteristics of Basque make
this language a good test ground to investigate the interaction
of phonological rules both with each other and with morphological
processes, which the author does within the Lexical Phonology
framework. The effects of rule interaction on feature geometry
are a major concern - how phonological operations modify
underlying structures and how the structures created by one
phonological rule can serve as input to other rules. These
effects are examined in a study of the rather peculiar behaviour
of Basque affricates. Another area which requires particular
attention, and in which Basque dialects differ widely, is
prosody. Along with stress-accent systems of different types,
Basque also possesses pitch-accent or restricted tonal systems in
some of its western dialects. This book should be of interest to
advanced students and teachers of linguistics, especially Romance
linguistics and lexical phonology.
This book is the first comprehensive treatment of the
phonological system of Basque available in English. Basque is a
morphologically rich and fairly regular language with a number of
active phonological rules that are limited to certain
morphological environments. In addition, it has a high degree of
dialectical fragmentation. These characteristics of Basque make
this language a good test ground to investigate the interaction
of phonological rules both with each other and with morphological
processes, which the author does within the Lexical Phonology
framework. The effects of rule interaction on feature geometry
are a major concern - how phonological operations modify
underlying structures and how the structures created by one
phonological rule can serve as input to other rules. These
effects are examined in a study of the rather peculiar behaviour
of Basque affricates. Another area which requires particular
attention, and in which Basque dialects differ widely, is
prosody. Along with stress-accent systems of different types,
Basque also possesses pitch-accent or restricted tonal systems in
some of its western dialects. This book should be of interest to
advanced students and teachers of linguistics, especially Romance
linguistics and lexical phonology.