The Sound Shape of Language

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Walter de Gruyter, 2002 - 335 páginas
Reading this volume transported me back to Harvard and MIT lecture halls of the 1960s, where weekly Roman Jakobson would spellbind his audience (this reviewer included), developing his vision of language through impassioned exposition, deft and devastating allusions to critical literature, anecdotes with the force of parables, metaphors of mythic imagery, and above all else overriding verbal artistry: truly in his own phrase, 'In the poetry of grammar'. The Sound Shape of Language, his collaboration with Linda R. Waugh, a scholar who has devoted considerable attention to an exposition and elaboration of Jakobsonian views, fortunately has preserved in print the authoritative lectorial voice. Michael Silverstein in Journal of Communication
 

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PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION Linda R Waugh PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION Linda R Waugh Chapter
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Speech Sounds and Their Tasks I Spoonerisms
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Sense Discrimination
8
Homonymy
9
Doublets
12
Early Search
13
Invariance and Relativity
17
Quest for Oppositions VIII Features and Phonemes XI XII
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Interrelation of Tonality Features
119
And What Now?
123
Chapter Three The Network of Distinctive Features
125
The Two Axes
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Nasality
134
Voiced Voiceless and Tense Lax
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VIII
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Speech Sounds and the Brain
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Redundancy
39
Configurative Features
41
Stylistic Variations
43
Physiognomic Indices
45
The Distinctive Features in Relation to the Other Components of the Speech Sound
46
The Identification of Distinctive Features
53
Sense Discrimination and Sense Determination
57
Autonomy and Integration
59
Universals
60
Speech Perception
64
Life and Language
67
Role of Learning
73
Speech and Visualized Language
74
Multiformity and Conformism
77
Inner Speech
81
Chapter Two Quest for the Ultimate Constituents
83
Vowel Consonant
87
Syllabicity
89
Markedness
92
Grave Acute
95
Production and Decoding
98
Compact Diffuse
101
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Sharpness and Flatness
113
Strident Mellow
142
Consonantal Correspondences to the Prosodic Features
145
Vowel Harmony
149
Glides
153
The Nascent Sound Shape
156
Dynamic Synchrony
168
Vistas
176
Chapter Four The Spell of Speech Sounds
181
Synesthesia
191
Word Affinities
198
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202
SoundSymbolic Ablaut
203
Speech Sounds in Mythopoeic Usage
208
Verbal Taboo
211
Glossolalia
214
Sound as the Basis of Verse
218
AFTERWORD
235
APPENDIX
241
APPENDIX
255
REFERENCES
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INDEX OF NAMES
317
INDEX OF LANGUAGES
325
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