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Pauly, Peter – Deutsche Sprache, 1974
A combination matrix could be very useful to illustrate the synchronic and diachronic representation of German diphthongs. Examples are provided. It is further suggested that such a matrix could be utilized for phonological research in the areas of historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and dialectology. (Text is in German.) (DS)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, German, Phonology
PDF pending restorationCLIVIO, GIANRENZO – 1966
THIS SKETCH CONSTITUTES A PRELIMINARY STUDY FOR A DESCRIPTIVE GRAMMAR OF PANJABI, THE LANGUAGE SPOKEN BY NEARLY 30 MILLION PEOPLE IN THE INDIAN AND PAKISTANI PROVINCES OF PUNJAB, AND BY SIKHS AND PANJABI MUSLIMS IN EAST AFRICA. AN INDO-ARYAN LANGUAGE, PANJABI (ALONG WITH HINDI) IS THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF EAST PUNJAB, AND THE PRESENT STUDY IS…
Descriptors: Consonants, Descriptive Linguistics, Intonation, Panjabi
Peer reviewedHyman, Larry M. – Language, 1973
Rejoinder to arguments against abstract phonology in Robert T. Harms' How Abstract Is Nupe?'', FL 504 726. (RS)
Descriptors: African Languages, Descriptive Linguistics, Evaluation, Morphophonemics
Peer reviewedSt. Clair, Robert N. – Language Sciences, 1972
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Linguistic Theory, Morphology (Languages), Nouns
Abramson, Arthur S. – PASAA: Notes and News about Language Teaching and Linguistics in Thailand, 1974
The desirability of the exploitation of experimental phonetics by the phonologist is discussed, and research on vowel duration in Thai is described in support of this contention. (RM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Phonetics
Hubers, G. A. C.; Kooij, Jan G. – Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, 1973
Assimilation refers to a segment influencing one or more neighboring segments across a word boundary. (DD)
Descriptors: Consonants, Descriptive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), Dutch
Peer reviewedHarms, Robert T. – Language, 1973
Challenges the arguments for abstract phonology based on the treatment of the Nupe vowels in Larry M. Hyman's How Concrete Is Phonology?'' Language, v46 p58-76 1970. (RS)
Descriptors: African Languages, Consonants, Descriptive Linguistics, Evaluation
Peer reviewedStammerjohann, Harro – Italica, 1973
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Determiners (Languages), Italian, Morphology (Languages)
Peer reviewedBlevins, Juliette; Garrett, Andrew – Language, 1998
Argues against the theory that metathesis is less natural phonetically than other processes and distinguished by greater phonological motivation. Cases of consonant-vowel (CV) metathesis (synchronic and diachronic) are surveyed to explain how metathesis sound changes arise. Two types of CV metathesis with distinct synchronic properties and…
Descriptors: Consonants, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Linguistic Theory
Peer reviewedJensen, John T. – Language, 1974
A more highly constrained and more explanatory theory of phonology is produced if abbreviatory and essential variables are restricted. (CK)
Descriptors: Consonants, Descriptive Linguistics, Generative Phonology, Language Patterns
Kerlouegan, Francois – Langages, 1978
A phonetic analysis of Latin long vowels is followed by a phonological analysis which asks whether these vowels are phonemes and, if so, what their distinctive features are. (AM)
Descriptors: Classical Languages, Descriptive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), Latin
Peer reviewedDurand, J.; Lyche, C. – Journal of Linguistics, 1978
Attempts to demonstrate that the S-O alternation in French is not phonologically but morphologically derived. (AM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, French, Generative Phonology, Linguistic Theory
Peer reviewedLipski, John M. – Zeitschrift fur Dialektologie und Linguistik, 1973
Revised version of a paper read at the Canadian Linguistic Association, Montreal, Quebec, May 1972. (RS)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diagrams, Dialect Studies, Distinctive Features (Language)
Peer reviewedMalone, Joseph L. – Lingua, 1972
Revised and expanded version of a paper presented at 43rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New York, N.Y., December 28, 1968. (DD)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Diagrams, Grammar
Peer reviewedMarsh, James – Oceanic Linguistics, 1969
Research conducted under the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics. (DD)
Descriptors: Australian Aboriginal Languages, Consonants, Descriptive Linguistics, Intonation
