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"This volume owes its genesis to a series of lectures on various aspects of the historical phonology of Asian languages, sponsored by the Asian Linguistics Colloquium of the Department of Asian Languages and Literature of the University of Washington, in Seattle. The volume includes papers on both theoretical and applied aspects of Asian linguistics and topics examined include vowel harmony, dialect variation and ""inherent variability"", historical reconstruction based on the comparative method, accentology and language standardization. While some of the papers are comparative in nature, others deal with effects of language contact on phonological systems. Languages and language families dealt with are Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Altaic, Chinese, Uralic, Korean and Tai."

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Author:   William G. Boltz (University of Washington, Seattle) ,  Michael C. Shapiro (University of Washington, Seattle)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   77
Weight:   0.460kg
ISBN:  

9789027235749

ISBN 10:   9027235740
Pages:   249
Publication Date:   01 January 1991
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Preface and acknowledgements; 2. Zhou and Han phonology in the Shijing (by Baxter, William H.); 3. Vowel harmony loss in Uralic and Altaic (by Binnick, Robert I.); 4. The Old Chinese Terrestrial Rames in Saek (by Boltz, William G.); 5. Diachronic Aspects of Regular Disharmony in Modern Uyghur (by Hahn, Reinhard F.); 6. Vlax Phonological Divergence From Common Romani: Implications for Standardization and Orthography (by Hancock, Ian F.); 7. Dialects, Diglossia, and Diachronic Phonology in Early Indo-Aryan (by Hock, Hans Henrich); 8. The Emergence of the Syllable Types of Stems (C)VCC(V) and (C)VC(V) in Indo-Aryan and Dravidian: Conspiracy or Convergence? (by Krishnamurti, Bh.); 9. How Many Verner's Laws Does an Altaicist Need? (by Miller, Roy Andrew); 10. Nasals in Old Southern Chinese (by Norman, Jerry); 11. Proto-Korean and the Origin of Korean Accent (by Ramsey, S. Robert); 12. Index of Languages; 13. Index of Names

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