Matthew Gordon
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3590527 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Matthew Gordon |
| PRENOMES | Matthew |
| SOBRENOME | Gordon |
| ASSINATURA | GORDON M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1985-5362 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 68 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 444 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 66 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1910 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Lexical pitch accents in Croatian
Navigating Language in the Early Islamic World. Multilingualism and Language Change in the First Centuries of Islam
Targeting Disaster Aid
The Samarra Mutiny of 256/869
In 256 AH/869 CE, the rank-and-file of the Turkic-Central Asian military in Samarra, the Abbasid imperial centre, rose against their commanders and the caliphal court. This is according to al-Ṭabarī's third/ ninth-century Taʾrīkh (History). The present article discusses two related elements of the mutiny: the rise to influence and authority of members of the Samarran military command, and the resentment of the rank-and-file troops. The main topic…
Slavery in the Islamic Middle East (c. 600–1000 CE )
Much evidence – textual, material and documentary – points to slavery in the early and medieval Islamic Middle East (c. 600-1000 CE) as a social fact, persistent and multivalent. This is especially true for the urban landscape: the presence of enslaved and freed persons would have been impossible to miss. More difficult is the reconstruction of Middle Eastern agrarian slavery. This is a survey essay with particular reference to the early Abbasid …
Full Issue
Full Issue of Vol. 29 No. 1 (2021)
The Cambridge World History of Violence
Violence permeated much of social life across the vast geographical space of the European, American, Asian and Islamic lands and through the broad sweep of what is often termed the Middle Millennium (roughly 500 to 1500). Focusing on four contexts in which violence occurred across this huge area, the contributors to this volume explore the formation of centralised polities through war and conquest; institution building and ideological expression …
Word-Stress Systems
This chapter provides a typological and theoretical overview of word stress. Drawing on broad cross-linguistic data, it discusses phonological and phonetic characteristics of stress. It evaluates the typological distribution of stress systems along multiple dimensions, including notions such as obligatoriness and culminativity, the directionality of edge orientation, weight (in)sensitivity, rhythm, stress windows, non-finality, boundedness, prima…
Cambridge World History of Violence
Amikam Elad, The Rebellion of Muḥammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya in 145/762
I s an exhaustive treatment of
Industrial symbiosis potential and urban infrastructure capacity in Mysuru, India
If the material intensive enterprises in an urban area of several million people shared physical resources that might otherwise be wasted, what environmental and public benefits would result? This study develops an algorithm based on lifecycle assessment tools for determining a city’s industrial symbiosis potential —that is, the sum of the wastes and byproducts from a city’s industrial enterprises that could reasonably serve as resource inputs to…
Gouverner en Islam (X e –XV e Siècle)
Abbasid Courtesans and the Question of Social Mobility
This chapter considers the rise to prominence by enslaved and freed persons in the major urban centers of the first Abbasid period (c. 750–900 CE). It uses the example of elite female performers at the Abbasid court, and, as evidence, a set of passages concerning three of the women, all of which occur in the 10th-century Kitab al-Aghani (Book of Songs) by Abu al-Faraj al-Isbahani (d.c. 972). The passages voice the same complaint: that the singer …
Methodological issues in the study of word stress correlates
The investigation of acoustic correlates of word stress is a prominent area of research. The literature is rife with studies of the acoustic exponents of what is often referred to as stress but the methodological diversity of this research has created an unclear picture of the properties robustly associated with it. The present paper explores the methodological issues involved in examining word stress correlates with the goal of proposing a set o…
Unhappy Offspring? Concubines and Their Sons in Early Abbasid Society
Contemporary and later Arabic texts provide much evidence that wayward conduct by elite young adult males was a source of considerable stress in early Abbasid cities. This brief essay turns on a question: to what extent is such conduct to be attributed to concubinage? I treat two sample texts, each describing untoward activity on the part of well-placed adult sons and its impact on the Abbasid body politic. Neither text, however, speaks to concub…
Acoustic correlates of word stress
The study of the acoustic correlates of word stress has been a fruitful area of phonetic research since the seminal research on American English by Dennis Fry over 50 years ago. This paper presents results of a cross-linguistic survey designed to distill a clearer picture of the relative robustness of different acoustic exponents of what has been referred to as word stress. Drawing on a survey of 110 (sub-) studies on 75 languages, we discuss the…
Phonetic and Phonological Research on Native American Languages
Aided by technological and theoretical advancements, the past century has witnessed a dramatic expansion in our knowledge of the phonetic and phonological properties of Native American languages. This research program, which is prominently featured in publications appearing in IJAL and elsewhere, has played a pivotal role in furthering our knowledge of the diversity of the sound patterns found in languages of the world and contributing to the dev…
Tone and Accent in Oklahoma Cherokee by Hiroto Uchihara
Reviewed by: Tone and Accent in Oklahoma Cherokee by Hiroto Uchihara Matthew K. Gordon Tone and Accent in Oklahoma Cherokee. Hiroto Uchihara. Oxford Studies of Endangered Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xviii + 302. $105.00 (cloth). Book-length case studies of prosody in individual language are relatively rare. Even sparser are comprehensive treatments of prosody in American Indian languages of the type found in Hiroto Uchih…
Some Phonetic Structures of Koasati
This paper presents results of the first quantitative phonetic study of Koasati, a Muskogean language spoken in Louisiana and Texas. We examine vowel quality, length contrasts in vowels and consonants, the limited system of lexical tone contrasts in nouns, and the grammatical system of tone in verbs. We also study the realization of several word-final consonant clusters (fn, tl, lw, etc.) that are absent in related languages and that are typologi…
A comparative phonetic study of the Circassian languages
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Languages of the Caucasus (2013), pp. 3-17
The Slave Girls of Baghdad
To write women securely into medieval Islamic/Near Eastern history, the concubines and ‘courtesans’ of Abbasid court society (Baghdad and Samarra, circa 750–900 C.E.) offer a compelling and, even
Acoustic correlates of stress and pitch accent in Tashlhiyt Berber
Prosodic fusion and minimality in Kabardian
The Northwest Caucasian language Kabardian displays a typologically unusual process of word formation, whereby two lexical roots fuse to form a single prosodic word whose phonological behaviour is parallel to prosodic words containing a single root. It is shown that this process of fusion, which is subject to a number of phonological and morphosyntactic restrictions, reflects a typologically unusual response to a cross-linguistically common minim…
Syllable structure and extrametricality
This paper proposes a functional basis for final consonant extrametricality, the asymmetric status of CVC syllables as stress-attracting in non-final position of a word but stress-rejecting in final position. A typological study of phonemic vowel length pattern in 10 languages with this final vs. non-final stress asymmetry and 30 languages in which CVC attracts stress in final position indicates a robust asymmetry between languages differing in t…
Acoustic correlates of stress in Turkish Kabardian
This paper reports results of an acoustic study of stress in the Turkish dialect of the Northwest Caucasian language, Kabardian. Stressed syllables were found to have consistently higher fundamental frequency and characteristically greater duration and intensity than unstressed syllables. No evidence was found for secondary stresses. Schwa and, to a lesser extent, /ɐ/ were shown to undergo slight raising as their duration in unstressed syllables …
Phonation types
Topic and Focus
Sociolinguistics
"Milroy and Gordon show how the research paradigm established by a few influential pioneers has been fruitfully expanded by new trends. Sociolinguistics considers issues of speaker selection and data collection; social dimensions of linguistic variation; syntactic and phonological variation; and style-shifting and code-switching. This book is a vital resource for helping readers design their research and evaluate the research of others"--Back cov…
Acoustic correlates of word stress
The study of the acoustic correlates of word stress has been a fruitful area of phonetic research since the seminal research on American English by Dennis Fry over 50 years ago. This paper presents results of a cross-linguistic survey designed to distill a clearer picture of the relative robustness of different acoustic exponents of what has been referred to as word stress. Drawing on a survey of 110 (sub-) studies on 75 languages, we discuss the…
A cross-linguistic acoustic study of voiceless fricatives
Results of an acoustic study of voiceless fricatives in seven languages are presented. Three measurements were taken: duration, center of gravity, and overall spectral shape. In addition, formant transitions from adjacent vowels were measured for a subset of the fricatives in certain languages. Fricatives were well differentiated in terms of overall spectral shape and their co-articulation effects on formant transitions for adjacent vowels. The c…
A Factorial Typology of Quantity-Insensitive Stress
Sex, Sound Symbolism, and Sociolinguistics
Two important general conclusions of sociolinguistics are that females tend to lead in linguistic changes and that vowel systems tend to rotate in fixed directions. We argue that these two results are linked in that females and males are attracted asymmetrically to different subjective poles of the vowel system, one being high front unrounded [i] and the other being somewhere in the back rounded area near {o o}. We therefore adapt Ohala's "freque…
A Phonetically Driven Account of Syllable Weight
The author proposes that syllable weight is driven by considerations of phonetic effectiveness and phonological simplicity, and that the phonetically best distinctions are those which divide syllables into groups that are phonetically most distinct from each other. Phonologically complex distinctions are those which exceed an upper threshold in the number of phonological predicates to which they refer. It is claimed that languages adopt weight di…
A Phonological and Phonetic Study of Word-Level Stress in Chickasaw
This paper presents results of a phonological and phonetic study of stress in Chickasaw, a Muskogean language spoken in south central Oklahoma. Three degrees of stress are differentiated acoustically, with primary stressed vowels having the highest f 0 and greatest duration and intensity, unstressed vowels having the lowest f 0 and shortest duration and intensity, and secondary stressed vowels displaying intermediate f 0, duration, and intensity …
Phonetic structures of Turkish Kabardian
This paper reports results of a quantitative phonetic study of Kabardian, a Northwest Caucasian language that is of typological interest from a phonetic standpoint. A number of cross-linguistically rare properties are examined. These features include the phonetic realization of Kabardian's small vowel inventory, which contains only three contrastive vowel qualities (two short vowels and one long vowel), spectral characteristics of the ten suprala…
A Perceptually-Driven Account of Onset-Sensitive Stress
Acoustic correlates of stress and pitch accent in Tashlhiyt Berber
Pitch accent timing and scaling in Chickasaw
A Phonetic Study of Final Vowel Lengthening in Chickasaw
This paper explores patterns of length in domain‐final vowels in Chickasaw, a Western Muskogean language of south‐central Oklahoma. Vowel duration is correlated with constituent size such that vowels in final position of larger domains are longer than vowels in final position of smaller domains. The correlation between domain size and duration is observed for both phonemic short and long vowels, thereby ensuring that the contrast in length is pre…
Acoustic correlates of stress in Turkish Kabardian
This paper reports results of an acoustic study of stress in the Turkish dialect of the Northwest Caucasian language, Kabardian. Stressed syllables were found to have consistently higher fundamental frequency and characteristically greater duration and intensity than unstressed syllables. No evidence was found for secondary stresses. Schwa and, to a lesser extent, /ɐ/ were shown to undergo slight raising as their duration in unstressed syllables …
Phonetic Structures of Western Apache
Typology in Optimality Theory
The mechanism of constraint re-ranking basis makes Optimality Theory (OT) a typologically oriented theory of phonology. Permuting the prioritization of constraints on a language-specific basis generates a factorial typology of phonological patterns. Patterns generated by an optimality-theoretic account can be compared with the set of attested patterns found in languages of the world to determine how well the analysis fits the observed typology. T…
Some Phonetic Structures of Koasati
This paper presents results of the first quantitative phonetic study of Koasati, a Muskogean language spoken in Louisiana and Texas. We examine vowel quality, length contrasts in vowels and consonants, the limited system of lexical tone contrasts in nouns, and the grammatical system of tone in verbs. We also study the realization of several word-final consonant clusters (fn, tl, lw, etc.) that are absent in related languages and that are typologi…
Weight-by-position adjunction and syllable structure
Chickasaw
Chickasaw is a Muskogean language spoken in south-central Oklahoma. Published descriptions of Chickasaw phonetics include Munro & Willmond (1994), Munro (to appear), and Gordon et al. (2000). The following description is a summary of the principal phonetic aspects of Chickasaw drawn primarily from these works
Phonetic and Phonological Research on Native American Languages
Aided by technological and theoretical advancements, the past century has witnessed a dramatic expansion in our knowledge of the phonetic and phonological properties of Native American languages. This research program, which is prominently featured in publications appearing in IJAL and elsewhere, has played a pivotal role in furthering our knowledge of the diversity of the sound patterns found in languages of the world and contributing to the dev…
Positional Weight Constraints in Optimality Theory
October 01 2004 Positional Weight Constraints in Optimality Theory In Special Collection: CogNet Matthew Gordon Matthew Gordon University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Matthew Gordon University of California, Santa Barbara Online ISSN: 1530-9150 Print ISSN: 0024-3892 © 2004 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2004 Linguistic Inquiry (2004) 35 (4): 69…
The Collection of Ship-Money in the Reign of Charles I
The subject of this paper is the financial aspect of shipmoney; that is, it attempts to discuss the following questions. How much money was actually levied on the ship-money writs? How was that money spent? How was it assessed and collected? As a form of direct taxation how does ship-money compare with a subsidy? The materials on which it is based are mainly the Audit Office Declared Accounts, the assessments in the Council Register, and the lett…
The Collection of Ship-Money in the Reign of Charles I
The subject of this paper is the financial aspect of shipmoney; that is, it attempts to discuss the following questions. How much money was actually levied on the ship-money writs? How was that money spent? How was it assessed and collected? As a form of direct taxation how does ship-money compare with a subsidy? The materials on which it is based are mainly the Audit Office Declared Accounts, the assessments in the Council Register, and the lett…
What the Axis Thinks of the OWI
WHAT EFFECT is the informational work of OWI having upon the thinking of peoples in enemy countries? It is difficult to obtain a precise answer. In this article Mr. Gordon presents evidence to show that Axis countries are really beginning to feel the impact of these activities. Mr. Gordon has been with the Office of War Information since August 1942. From January 1939 to August 1942, he was news editor for CBS. Prior to that time he was associate…
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The Elusive Self
Cambridge Voters Challenge US Policy
Documents de l'Islam médieval
The Transmission of Knowledge in Medieval Cairo
The End of the jihād state
Syllable Weight and the Phonetics/Phonology Interface
Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Pragmatics and Grammatical Structure (1997)
A Fortition-Based Approach to Balto-Fennic-Sámi Consonant Gradation
La gradation de consonne est une alternance affectant les consonnes de la plupart des langues balto-fenniques et des dialectes du nord et de l'est du sami (lapon). Elle a ete un processus productif pendant la periode proto balto-fennique-sami il y a 3000 ans, mais s'est morphologisee, depuis, dans les langues filles. L'A. propose ici une analyse plausible de la gradation en la considerant comme un processus prosodique dirige phonetiquement qui s'…
Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past
The Phonetics and Phonology of Non-modal Vowels
Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Phonetics and Phonological Universals (1998)
Sex, Sound Symbolism, and Sociolinguistics
Two important general conclusions of sociolinguistics are that females tend to lead in linguistic changes and that vowel systems tend to rotate in fixed directions. We argue that these two results are linked in that females and males are attracted asymmetrically to different subjective poles of the vowel system, one being high front unrounded [i] and the other being somewhere in the back rounded area near {o o}. We therefore adapt Ohala's "freque…
The Phonetics of Ndumbea
“Overseas Territory ” in the South Pacific. The name Ndumbea more properly belongs to a people who have given their name to the present-day capital of the territory, Nouméa, as well as to Dumbéa, a smaller town to the north of Nouméa. Rivierre (1973) uses the phrase [n¢a⁄)a)
The Turkish Officers of Samarra
The present article concerns the access to revenue on the part of the Turkish officers of Abbāsid Samarra. It is argued that the revenue in question explains their considerable influence. It is also argued that among the arrangements made for the Turkish officers were specific forms of land tenure which represented a decisive step toward the system of the new style iqtā so widely used after the third/ninth century in the Islamic Near East
Re-examining Default-to-opposite Stress
Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Aspect (2000)
A typology of contour tone restrictions
This paper presents results of a survey of contour tones in 105 languages with lexical tone. Results indicate an implicational hierarchy of tone bearing ability, whereby long vowels are most likely to carry contour tones, followed by syllables containing a short vowel plus a sonorant coda, followed by syllables containing a short vowel plus an obstruent coda, followed by open syllables containing a short vowel. It is claimed that this tonal hiera…
Phonetic Structures of Western Apache
Phonation types
The Khāqānid Families of the Early ʿAbbasid Period
The present article seeks to tally the known members of two prominent families of the early ⊂ Abbasid caliphate, and to identify their ethnic origins. All indications are that the family of Khāqān c Urtūj was of Turkish origins but that the family joined the c Abbasid military voluntarily. The family of Yahyā b. Khāqān, by contrast, probably was of Iranian origin, and there is compelling evidence that Yahyā and his offspring were members of the A…
State and Rural Society in Medieval Islam
Chickasaw
Chickasaw is a Muskogean language spoken in south-central Oklahoma. Published descriptions of Chickasaw phonetics include Munro & Willmond (1994), Munro (to appear), and Gordon et al. (2000). The following description is a summary of the principal phonetic aspects of Chickasaw drawn primarily from these works
Jürgen Handke (2001). The Mouton interactive introduction to phonetics and phonology. Berlin and New York
The Mouton interactive introduction to phonetics and phonology (henceforth MIIPP) is an informative and interesting interactive CD introduction to phonetics and phonology. It is compatible with both Macintosh (version 8.1 or higher) and Windows (NT 4.0 or higher, 95 or higher) operating systems. Ambitious in coverage and innovative in its multimedia presentation, the CD offers an engaging overview of a number of topics in phonetics and phonology,…
A Factorial Typology of Quantity-Insensitive Stress
Weight-by-position adjunction and syllable structure
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