Subject: new books : phonology

wang jialing and norval smith ( editors ) studies in chinese phonology 1997 . 23 x 15 , 5 cm . 295 pages . cloth dm 168 , - / approx . us $ 120 . 00 isbn 3-11 - 013953 - 7 linguistic models 20 mouton de gruyter * berlin * new york this volume contains papers covering various aspects of segmental structure as well as tone sandhi and neutral tone in the tonological area . all analyses are based on recent phonological theories such as autosegmental theory , lexical phonology , feature geometry , underspecification theory and prosodic phonology . the introduction provides background knowledge of synchronic and diachronic aspects of chinese phonology . the contributions present analyses of dialects including the four major dialect families in chinese : mandarin ( beijing , tianjin ) , yue ( cantonese ) , min ( fuzhou ) and wu ( shanghai , chongming ) . besides being essential to scholars and students of chinese phonology , this book will also be found useful by phonologists and linguists in general as well as sinologists in other fields . contents wang jialing and norval smith , introduction * matthew y . chen and hongming zhang , lexical and postlexical tone sandhi in chongming * stuart milliken , zhang guang - ping , zhang xue - yi , li zhi - qui and lu ying , resolving the paradox of tianjin tone sandhi * chilin shih , mandarin third tone sandhi and prosodic structure * jin shunde , toward a systematic account of shanghai tonal phonology * wang jialing , the representation of the neutral tone in chinese putonghua * edwin g . pulleyblank , the cantonese vowel system in historical perspective * richard wiese , underspecification and the description of chinese vowels * moira yip , consonant - vowel interaction in cantonese * marjorie k . m . chan , fuzhou glottal stop : floating segment or correlation of close contact ? * list of authors and editors robert s . bauer and paul k . benedict modern cantonese phonology 1997 . 23 x 15 , 5 cm . xlviii , 559 pages . cloth dm 158 , - / approx . us $ 113 . 00 isbn 3-11 - 014893 - 5 trends in linguistics . studies and monographs 102 mouton de gruyter * berlin * new york the economic boom of southeast china has given both the region and its language an unprecedented importance . but although cantonese has become an increasingly important language on the world stage , this development has not spurred any major publications on cantonese phonology . this volume presents an analysis of modern cantonese . it describes the consonants , vowels , and tones of the contemporary language and examines the structure of the cantonese syllable and the types of changes that can occur when syllables are strung together in words and phrases . the descriptive phonology is not based on any particular linguistic theory . written in a clear and concise language , this comprehensive account of cantonese phonology is appropriate for the beginning student of cantonese , the cantonese native-speaker , the teacher of english to cantonese - speaking students , the professional linguist , and the layman curious about one of southeast asia 's major languages . _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ mouton de gruyter walter de gruyter , inc . postfach 30 34 21 200 saw mill river road d-10728 berlin hawthorne , ny 10532 germany usa fax : + 49 ( 0 ) 30 26005-351 fax : + 1 914 747-1326 email : 100064 . 2307 @ compuserve . com publications by de gruyter can also be ordered via world wide web : http : / / www . degruyter . de
