Development in Prosodic Systems

by Paula Fikkert Haike Jacobs, Haike Jacobs (Editor)

This book brings together papers on various aspects of prosodic development from a generative linguistic perspective. It addresses issues such as the relationship between tone, stress and quantity, the evidence for prosodic change from metrics and discusses the role of analogy, language contact, and language acquisition in change. The unique combination of different methodologies and perspectives investigating development in prosodic systems provides a new and broader scope on historical linguistics.

463 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 2002