Bücher der Reihe The Phonology of the World's Languages

Presents the study of the phonology of Standard Chinese. This book contains theoretical solutions to many problems in Chinese phonology, such as word length variation, word order, and the application of the third tone sandhi. It is intended for those with an interest in Chinese languages or phonology.

In this work, the authors provide a description of the phonological system of Portuguese, comparing the main phenomena of the two most widely extended varieties of the language - European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese - in the light of 1990s phonological theories.

This work introduces the general features of Hungarian, and its major dialects. It examines the vowel and consonant systems, and Phonotactics. The authors describe the phonological processes that vowels, consonants, and syllables undergo and/or trigger.

This is the most complete, up-to-date description of the phonology of German presently available. It applies recent models of phonological theory, laying particular emphasis on the interaction of morphology and phonology. Now in a new paperback edition, it focuses on the present-day standard language, including discussions of other variants and registers.

This is an account of the phonology and morphology of modern spoken Arabic, the first to be published in any language and based largely on the author's research. Dr Watson's approach is theoretically innovative and aware, but accessible to Arabic language specialists outside linguistics. Broad in coverage, this is an important and pioneering book.

This book provides both the first comprehensive description of the phonology and phonetics of Standard Mongolian and the first account in any language of the historical phonology of the Mongolian group of languages.

This text offers an approach to English phonology which focuses on the prosody of the language and does so from an optimality-theoretic (OT) perspective. The focus is on surface distributional regularities and the results presented are based on searches through various computerized lexicons.