Overview

The book is the most comprehensive account of the phonology of Danish ever published in any language. It gives a clear analysis of the sound patterns of modern Danish and examines the relations between its speech sounds and grammar. The author develops new models for the analysis of phonology and morphology-phonology interactions, and shows how these may be applied to Danish and to other languages. Danish has an unusually rich vowel system and exhibits radical reduction processes that make it difficult for foreigners to understand. The sound pattern is equally challenging for the analyst. Professor Basbøll develops a non-circular model for the sonority syllable and applies it to Danish phonotactics. He presents a radically new and insightful analysis of stød, a syllable accent which has a complex grammatical distribution and is unique among the world´s languages. He also describes syllabic and word structures, and stress and intonation. The book is fully referenced and indexed. It will be widely welcomed by phonologists and scholars of Danish, and is likely to become the standard account of Danish phonology.

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Author:   Hans Basbøll (, University of Southern Denmark)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.40cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   1.066kg
ISBN:  

9780198242680

ISBN 10:   0198242689
Pages:   624
Publication Date:   05 May 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Part One: Introduction and Contrastive Units 1: Introduction 2: Segments, Prosodies and Letters Part Two: Distinctive Features and Segment Types 3: Distinctive Features and Major Classes 4: An Analysis in Binary Distinctive Features 5: r-processes and the Potentials of Multivalued Features Part Three: The Sonority Syllable and Phonotactics 6: Developing the Sonority Syllable Model 7: Phonotactics of the Monomorphemic Monosyllable 8: Extending the Phonotactic Description: polymorphemic monosyllables, and disyllables with schwa Part Four: Syllables, Schwa-Drop, and Prosody 9: The Syllable as domain of segmental phonology: consonant gradation and short /a, o/ 10: Stod and Sound Structure: a moraic analysis 11: Schwa-assimilation and ""productive stod-addition"" 12: Stress Phonologically: prosodic and segmental prominence Part Five: Word Structure and Its Relation to Prosody 13: Systematically Graded Productivity of Endings (SGPE): a model for word structure and its implications for Danish phonology 14: Prosody of Simplex Lexemes: stod and stress 15: Prosody of Simplex Words: stod and stress in inflection 16: Prosody of Complex Words: stod and stress in word formation 17: Epilogue: from word to utterance Appendix References Index"

Reviews

extremely impressive in its scope. The author sets out to provide a full account of the phonology of Danish, and accomplishes this task...the book definitely lives up to the standard of the series Phonology of the World's Languages. This book will be of high value to those interested in phonology and morphology of Danish, as well as to phonologists generally. Jason Brown, The Linguist List an extraordinary contribution to the description and analysis of the Scandinavian languages. Nordic Journal of Linguistics, Volume 30/1

Author Information

Hans Basbøll is Professor of Scandinavian Linguistics at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense. He has published extensively on Danish and general phonology. His books include, with Johannnes Wagner, Kontrastive Phonologie des Deutschen und Dänischen (1985). He has served on the editorial boards of Phonology, Cognitive Linguistics, and Nordic Journal of Linguistics and directed projects on Danish children's language acquisition. In 1991 he was elected a Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.

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