Dimensions of Phonological Stress

Jeffrey Heinz, Rob Goedemans, Harry van der Hulst

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9781107102811
• eBook ISBN:
  9781316786482
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Phonetics & Phonology
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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 acquisition, where the tension between the abstract mental representations and the concrete physical manifestations of stress and accent is deeply reflected. Understanding the nature of the representations of stress and accent patterns, and understanding how stress and accent patterns are learned, informs all aspects of linguistic theory and language acquisition. These two themes - representation and acquisition - form the organizational backbone of this book. Each is addressed along different dimensions of stress and accent, including the position of an accent or stress within various prosodic domains and the acoustic dimensions along which the pronunciation of stress and accent may vary. The research presented in the book is multidisciplinary, encompassing theoretical linguistics, speech science, and computational and experimental research.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Table of contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• List of contributors
• Introduction
• 1 Metrical Incoherence: Diachronic Sources and Synchronic Analysis
• 2 The Role of Phenomenal Accent
• 3 Foot Alignment in Spanish Secondary Stress
• 4 The Interaction of Metrical Structure and Tone in Standard Chinese
• 5 Prominence, Contrast, and the Functional Load Hypothesis: An Acoustic Investigation
• 6 Iquito: The Prosodic Colon and Evaluation of OT Stress Accounts
• 7 Investigating the Efficiency of Parsing Strategies for the Gradual Learning Algorithm
• 8 Covert Representations, Contrast, and the Acquisition of Lexical Accent
• 9 One or Many? In Search of the Default Stress in Greek
• 10 The Development of Rhythmic Preferences by Dutch-learning Infants
• 11 Acoustic Characteristics of Infant-directed Speech as a Function of Prosodic Typology
• Index