The study of word stress and accent : theories, methods and data / edited by Rob Goedemans, Jeffrey Heinz, Harry van der Hulst.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goedemans, Rob, editor.

Heinz, Jeffrey, 1974- editor.

Hulst, Harry van der, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Accents and accentuation.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Phonology.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 430 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Summary:

Stress and accent are central, organizing features of grammar, but their precise nature continues to be a source of mystery and wonder. These issues come to the forefront in the phonetic manifestation of stress and accent, their cross-linguistic variation and the subtle and intricate laws they obey in individual languages. Understanding the nature of stress and accent systems informs all aspects of linguistic theory, methods, typology and especially the grammatical analysis of language data. These themes form the organizational backbone of this book. Bringing together a team of world-renowned phonologists, the volume covers a range of typological and theoretical issues in the study of stress and accent. It will appeal to researchers who value synergistic approaches to the study of stress and accent, careful attention to cross-linguistic variation, and detailed analyzes of both well-studied and understudied languages. The book is a lively testimony of a field of inquiry that shows progress, while also identifying questions for ongoing research.

Contents:

Acoustic correlates and perceptual cues of word and sentence stress : towards a cross-linguistic perspective / Vincent J. van Heuven

Positional prominence vs. word accent : is there a difference? / Larry M. Hyman

Explaining word-final stress lapse / Anya Lunden

What Danish and Estonian can show to a modern word-prosodic typology / Natalia Kuznetsova

Mora and syllable accentuation : typology and representation / Rene Kager & Violeta Martinez-Paricio

Word stress, pitch accent and word order typology : with special reference to Altaic / Hisao Tokizaki

Persistence and change in stem prominence in Dene (Athabaskan) languages / Keren Rice

Spanish word stress : an updated multidimensional account / Iggy Roca

Metrically conditioned pitch accent in Upsanteko / Bjorn Kohnlein

Focus prosody in Kagoshima Japanese / Haruo Kubozono

Where is the Dutch stress system? some new data / Bjorn Kohnlein and Marc van Oostendorp

Morphologically assigned accent and an initial three-syllable window in Ese'eja / Nicholas Rolle and Marine Vuillermet

A scales-and-paramaters approach to morpheme-specific exceptions in accent assignment / Alexandre Vaxman.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Dec 2018).

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-316-73243-6

1-316-73050-6

1-316-68310-9