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"A phonologist ignores phonetics at his own peril," remarks Professor Lehiste, whose work in acoustic phonetics and in historical and descriptive phonology over the past decade has resulted in this important experimental study of the linguistic function of suprasegmentals. The author assembles and summarizes what is currently known about the phonetic nature of suprasegmentals and evaluates the available evidence from the point of view of linguistic theory. She describes observed linguistic facts, seeks to explain them, and attempts to set up predictions. The book contains a great deal of painstakingly gathered evidence for the existence of speech patterns whose domain is larger than a segment and which, the author states, should form a part of linguistic theory.Suprasegmental features are either listed as the set of features consisting of pitch, stress, and quantity or defined as features whose domain extends over more than one segment. In American linguistics, the author points out, the term is used more or less synonymously with prosodic features. She contends that neither definition is complete and intends in this research to provide a more fully satisfying description of these

Author

Ilse Lehiste; Universität zu Köln.; Linguistic Institute

Publisher

M.I.T. Press; The MIT Press

Published

1970

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262120234

Subjects

Language Learning, Literary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14