PART 2 - CONTENT OVERVIEW OF "PHONEME AND LANGUAGE TYPOLOGY" BY NGUYEN QUANG HONG

 

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CHAPTER 1: PHONE AND SYLLABLE, THEORY OF SYLLABLE

1.1 Phone and syllable

1.1.1 Phone does not appear in a clear-cut way in speech

1.1.2 Explanation of Scherba and Ferdinand de Saussure on phone

1.1.3 Phone and phonetic transcription as well as Phonetics

1.1.4 "Phone in speech" and "linguistical lhone", from "phone" to phoneme

1.2 Phoneme-a multi-faceted phenomenon

1.2.1 Phoneme-the smallest articulatory unit

1.2.2 Three aspects of the theory of phoneme

1.2.3 Phonemic phonetics

1.2.4 Phoneme and sensation-consciousness

1.3 Phoneme - a linguistical phenomenon

1.3.1 Three fundamental functions of phoneme

1.3.2 Phoneme and rhythm and prosody of speech

1.3.4 Phoneme and the phonetical system

1.3.5 Is there a composite definition for phoneme?

1.3.6 Phoneme within the hierarchy of speech units

CHAPTER 2: EUROPE AND CHINA: FROM THE INNERMOST, FROM OUTSIDE, FROM ABOVE

2.1 The traditions of linguistics in Europe and China and their method of establishing basic linguistical units

2.1.1 From "phoneme" to "syllable" and vice versa

2.1.2 From "morpheme" to "word" and vice versa

2.1.3 Before becoming a linguistic researcher, they are native speakers

2.2 The reality of corpus and the analysis of phonology

2.2.1 The basis of corpus of phonology of Russian language and traditional Chinese phonology for Chinese language

2.2.2 Rhymes in poetry and analysis of phonology

2.2.3 Comparing rhymes in poetry in Russian and Chinese language

2.3 From inside, from outside, and from above

2.3.1 Western thoughts entering the East

2.3.2 From the inside, language being described by itself

2.3.3 Discussing "from above" and "from outside"

CHAPTER 3: SYLLABLE AND CHINESE PHONOLOGICAL TRADITIONS (音韻學)

Phoneme within classical Chinese phonology

3.1 Fanqie

3.1.1 The need to recording phonetic sound for Chinese characters and the first records of phonetic sound

3.1.2 The method of fanqie - the general principles

3.1.3 Improvement in fanqie

3.2 "Tone"and "Rhyme" in Chinese phoneme

3.2.1 Initial - the first sound segment

3.2.2 Rhyme - the vần cái part

3.3 "Điệu" and "Hô" in Chinese phoneme

3.3.1 From "two Hô" to "four Hô"

3.3.2 "Four tones" and two levels of "Phù-Trầm"

3.4 Summarizing and Supplementing

3.4.1 Clarifying and supplementing

3.4.2 A brief summary of classical Chinese phonology

CHAPTER 4: AN OUTLINE OF SYLLABLE PHONOLOGY

General outline of phonemic phonetics

4.1 Syllabeme - the basic unit of Phonetics
4.1.1 Dividing and categorizing phonemes into allophones

4.1.2 The number of syllabeme within a language

4.2 The Structure of a Syllabem

4.2.1 The basis for detaching and dividing phonetical units

4.2.2 The possibility of dividing and identifying constituents of syllabeme

4.2.3 A On "zero" phonetical unit

4.2.4 "Vần cái" and analyzing "vần cái"

4.2.5 Rhymes in poetry and the structure of phoneme

4.3 Phonemic Phonology Syllabeme, Quasiphoneme, Kinakeme

4.3.1 Phonemic Phonology

4.3.2 Phonemic Phonology and Phonemic Phonetics

CHAPTER 5: PHONEME AND LANGUAGE TYPOLOGY

Phoneme and typology of languages

5.1 Phoneme and the division of typology of phonetical structure

5.1.1 Phoneme within topological linguistics

5.1.2 A list of criteria for phoneme employed in different types of typological phonetics

5.1.3 A general picture of different types of typologies of phonetic structure

5.2 Different types of phonetic structures: an introduction and remark

5.2.1 Typologies of "phonemic" structure and typologies of "near phonemic" structure

5.2.2 Typologies of "near phonemic" structure and typologies of "phonemic" structure

5.2.3 Roles of "neutral" vowels

5.3 Isolating of phoneme and the mechanism of single phoneme of tonal languages

5.3.1 The tendency of isolating phoneme and the mechanism of isolating morphological and tonal language

5.3.2 Different ways of isolating

5.3.3 Number of phonemes in a language and the isolating characteristics of phoneme in a language as it is placed in the stream of speech

5.3.4 

CONCLUSION

LANGUAGES CITED IN THIS BOOK

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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