Development in Prosodic Systems (Studies in Generative Grammar, 58)
Contributors: Johanna Paula Monique Fikkert (Editor); Haike Jacobs (Editor)
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: November 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 463
ISBN-13: 9783110166842
Subjects: Historical & comparative linguistics; Phonetics, phonology, prosody (speech); Linguistics; Language; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Prosodic analysis (Linguistics); Phonetics & Phonics; Historical linguistics; General; Prosodic analysis (Linguistics
First sentence: The town of Weert, in the Dutch province of Limburg, close to the provincial boundary with Noord-Brabant and some eight kilometers from the Belgian border, has traditionally been situated on the northwestern periphery of the geographical area with lexical tone (e.g. Peters 1936, Goossens 1968, Peeters and Scheuten 1989).