The Syllable

by Harry van der Hulst (Editor), Nancy Ritter (Editor)

Language scholars from Europe and the US review current approaches to the phonotactic or syllabic organization of words in some 20 languages. They use a number of models to represent the phenomenon, but most adopt a constraint-based approach either in the context of models that appeal to language-specific constraint ranking or models that use no ranking of inviolable constraints. Most of the 22 papers are extensively rewritten versions of contributions to a June 1996 conference in Pézenas, France. De Gruyter books stand as golden beacons in a storm of plastic covered, junk paper, perfect-bound, sloppily printed, ugly trash books. The company upholds a standard of bookmaking that has all but succumbed to avarice and no-taste management. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

808 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 1999