Readership: The book will interest phonologists, phoneticians, and language typologists throughout the world
The late Jørgen Rischel, University of Copenhagen, Nina Grønnum, University of Copenhagen, Frans Gregersen, Danish National Research Foundation LANCHART Centre, and Hans Basbøll, University of Southern Denmark
Part One Prerequisites and Analysis 1: Formal Linguistics and Real Speech 2: Consonant Gradation: A Problem in Danish Phonology and Morphology 3: On Functional Load in Phonemics 4: Derivation as a Syntactic Process in Greenlandic 5: Consonant Reduction in Faroese Noncompound Wordforms Part Two: Prosody 6: Stress, Juncture, and Syllabification in Phonemic Description 7: Is There Just One Hierarchy of Prosodic Categories? 8: Compound Stress in Danish Without a cycle 9: On Unit Accentuation in Danish - and the Distinction Between Deep and Surface Phonology 10: Morphemic Tone and Word Tone in Eastern Norwegian 11: Asymmetric Vowel Harmony in Greenlandic Fringe Dialects 12: Structural and Functional Aspects of Tone Split in Thai Part Three: Speech Sounds in History and Culture 13: A Note on Diachronic Data, Universals, and Research Strategies 14: Phoneme, Grapheme, and the "Importance" of Distinctions. Functional Aspects of the Scandinavian Runic Reform 15: A Unified Theory of Nordic i-umlaut, Syncope, and stød 16: Diphthongization in Faroese 17: Devoicing or Strengthening of Long Obstruents in Greenlandic 18: The Role of a "Mixed" Language in Linguistic Reconstruction 19: Typology and Reconstruction of Numeral Systems: The Case of Austroasiatic 20: The Mlabri Enigma: is Mlabri a Primary Hunter-Gatherer Language or the Result of an Ethnically and Socially Complex Founder Event? Jørgen Rischel's Bibliography References Index
