French Sound Structure - Softcover

Walker, Douglas C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1552380335 ISBN 13: 9781552380338

Publisher: University of Calgary Press, 2001

Synopsis

French Sound Structure provides a comprehensive, detailed, and well-illustrated description of the pronunciation of Modern Standard French, incorporating comments on regional and social variation, on abbreviatory processes and "word play," and on certain historical phonological changes that continue to be reflected in the contemporary language. It is written in a way that presupposes little or no formal training in linguistics proper (other than some familiarity with phonetic notation, to which students of linguistics are normally exposed independently).

This work will be of interest to university students studying French and to students of linguistics in general. Others wishing to know more about the nature of the French language will also find the material useful since pronunciation is rarely considered in any detail in general handbooks of French. The accompanying CD-ROM is a valuable asset, providing oral examples relevant to the linguistic material under study.

About this title

About the Author

Douglas Walker, a professor of French and Linguistics in the Department of French, Italian and Spanish at the University of Calgary, teaches French and general linguistics. He has held academic positions in both Canada and the United States and has authored An Introduction to Old French Morphophonology, The Pronunciation of Canadian French, and numerous articles and reviews.

Review

...[a] well-organised and systematic presentation of the major questions of modern French phonology in a clearly updated fashion." - Jurgen Klausenburger, University of Washington, Seattle

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Calgary Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1552380335
• ISBN 13: 9781552380338
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 241