Prof. C.H.M. Gussenhoven (Carlos)
Professor emeritus - Department of Language and Communication
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I study sound systems of languages and their functioning in grammars. Setting out with a focus on English and Dutch, my current research has a typological orientation. In addition to vowels and consonants, it concerns word stress as well as tones, of the word, as in tone languages, and of the sentence, i.e., intonation. I have contributed descriptions of a wide variety of languages spoken in different parts of the world, within a 'Laboratory Phonology' tradition, including Nigerian English, Yucatec Maya, Shiwilu, Shanghai Wu, Yuhuan Wu, Libyan Berber, Zhumadian Mandarin and Nubi. My work on the integration of word tones and sentence tones began with analyses of a number of Limburgish dialects, specifically those spoken in Venlo, Roermond, Helden and Maastricht.
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