Full Description
This volume focuses on the theoretical and analytical challenges that languages with complex morphologies pose for the theory and typology of word-level prosodic phenomena. The morphological complexity and phonological length that are characteristic of words in these languages make them a particularly fruitful ground for investigating the effects of both phonological and morphological factors in the assignment of prominence. The first three chapters in the volume explore general theoretical issues pertaining to word prominence in synthetic languages, including the issue of 'wordhood' and the empirical, theoretical, and methodological issues with delineating word-level prominence and the higher-level prosodic phenomena in these languages. These are followed by a series of case studies on stress, accent, and tone in a geographically and genetically diverse set of languages with highly synthetic morphologies including languages of the Americas, Europe and Asia, and Australia. The volume adopts an interdisciplinary perspective, combining phonetic, phonological, and morphosyntactic insights. It will be of interest not only to phonologists and morphologists, but to all those interested in the typological and theoretical issues relating to polysynthetic languages.
Contents
List of abbreviations
The contributors
Part I: Theoretical issues in word prominence
1: Ksenia Bogomolets and Harry van der Hulst: Word prominence and polysynthetic languages
2: Alana Johns: Polysynthetic words
3: Matthew K. Gordon: Word stress and intonational prominence in highly synthetic languages
Part II: Word prominence in North American languages
4: Keren Rice: Domains of prominence in polysynthetic languages of North America
5: Anja Arnhold, Emily Elfner, and Richard Compton: Inuktitut and the concept of word-level prominence
6: James A. Crippen, Rose-Marie Déchaine, and Emily Elfner: Tlingit (anti-) prominence
7: Ksenia Bogomolets: Accent and tone in Arapaho
8: Eugene Buckley: M-words, P-words, and accent phrases in Kashaya
9: Matthew K. Gordon and Jack B. Martin: Prominence in Muskogean languages
Part III: Word prominence in South American languages
10: Benjamin Molineaux: A reassessment of word prominence in Mapudungun: Phonological vs morphological activation
11: Elena I. Mihas and Olga Maxwell: Satipo Ashaninka word- and phrase-level prominence
12: Nicholas Rolle: Polysynthesis, stress uniformity, and the opposite-to-anchor stress system in Ese Ejja
Part IV: Word prominence in Australian languages
13: John Mansfield: The prosodic structure of Australian polysynthetic verbs: Bininj Gun-Wok, Murrinpatha, and Ngalakgan
Part V: Word prominence in languages of Europe and Asia
14: Johanna Mattissen: Phonological and morphological wordhood in Nivkh
15: Matthew K. Gordon and Ayla B. Applebaum: Prominence in Circassian
16: Öner Özçelik: Prosody in Turkish
17: Kristine A. Hildebrandt and Gregory D. S. Anderson: Word prominence in languages of Southern Asia
18: Harry van der Hulst: A unified account of phonological and morphological accent
References
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