The Syllable: Views and Facts

✍ Scribed by Harry van der Hulst (editor); Nancy Ritter (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 808
• Series: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]; 45
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Contributors
Abbreviations
1 Introducing the volume
Part I: General Issues
2 Theories of the syllable
3 Morpheme structure constraints and the phonotactics of Dutch
4 Syllables in Danish
5 The syllable in Hindi
Part II: Government Phonology
6 Head-Driven Phonology
7 The syllable in German: Exploring an alternative
8 Consonant clusters and governing relations: Polish initial consonant sequences
9 Hungarian syllable structure: Arguments for/against complex constituents
10 The Latin syllable
11 Syllables in Western Koromfe
Part III: Moraic Phonology
12 The syllable in Luganda phonology and morphology
13 Kihehe syllable structure
14 Dschang syllable structure
15 The syllable in Chinese
16 The syllable and syllabification in Modern Spoken Arabic (S?anca¯ni¯ and Cairene)
17 The Romansch syllable
Part IV: Optimality Theory
18 Syllables and phonotactics in Irish
19 A preliminary account of some aspects of Leurbost Gaelic syllable structure
20 Quantity in Norwegian syllable structure
Part V: Other approaches
21 A syllable-level feature in Finnish
22 Sievers’ Law in Vedic
Indexes
Index of authors
Index of languages
Index of subjects