Die segmentale Dauer als phonetischer Parameter von 'fortis' und 'lenis' bei Plosiven im Zürichdeutschen: Eine akustische und perzeptorische Untersuchung by Urs Willi (review)

BOOK NOTICES 675 Georg Tischhauser in the 1930's, of Mungaka, a Grassfields Bantoid language (subgroup MbamNkam : Nun), spoken by the Bali-Nyonga people of Southern Cameroon. The dictionary is of sufficient importance to its community to occasion a short appreciative foreword by a community leader. Following sections explain the origin of the dictionary, briefly describe the speech community (tracing its lineage to an Adamawan-speaking group), and provide a short introductory grammatical sketch (1-28) by Gudrun Miehe and Johannes Stöckle. The sketch, candidly indicating its analytical limitations, includes information about phonology, morphology, and syntax, useful to the dictionary proper because most entries include illustrative sentences. Most of the bound grammatical morphemes discussed in the sketch are also listed in the dictionary, hyphenated to indicate their morphological status, grammatically classified, and further illustrated. Vowel distinctions, in particular, are overnarrowly transcribed by means of various diacritics below the standard character (tones above) but described articulatorily (2) and matched to a later more phonemic IPA-like transcription (32), e.g., [a] = /e/. The dictionary entries, totalling approximately 6800 words (33-408), are alphabetically arranged in single columns. Each entry is tonally transcribed and grammatically classified. Derivationally related words are presented as separate entries, e.g.,