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With the reissue of this treatise, an instrumental step in the development of both moraic phonology and prosodic morphology becomes available again. This essential text presents a comprehensive treatment of syllable weight in phonology and of its consequences for weight-related phenomena, proposing that the basic tier consists of weight units equivalent to the morals of traditional synchronic and diachronic phonology. Turning to the unusual Gokana language of Nigeria, which may lack syllables entirely, Hyman argues that the ...

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A Theory of Phonological Weight 2003, Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion, Stanford, CA

ISBN-13: 9781575863283

Trade paperback

A Theory of Phonological Weight 1985, Mouton de Gruyter

ISBN-13: 9789067651073

Unabridged

Trade paperback

A Theory of Phonological Weight 1985, Walter de Gruyter, Basel/Berlin/Boston

ISBN-13: 9783110130775

Reprint 2019 edition

Hardcover