Full Description
This volume explores tonal accent across a variety of the world's languages from both a synchronic and diachronic perspective. Tonal accent lies at the heart of current debates on the typology of prosodic representations, one of the most controversial fields in contemporary phonological theory; the phenomenon is relevant to both word prominence and tone, but its status remains somewhat unclear. The chapters in this volume present and evaluate the current state of research in the field and demonstrate that the study of tonal accent can shed light on multiple important questions in phonology. They also outline directions for future research, based on novel and underused empirical data and on the principle of contextualizing different, language-specific research traditions within broader theoretical debates.
Contents
Series preface
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
1: Pavel Iosad and Björn Köhnlein: Introduction
2: José Ignacio Hualde, Ander Beristain, and Ane Icardo Isasa: Word-prosodic constraints and bidialectalism in Basque
3: Rachel Fournier and Carlos Gussenhoven: Context-specific tonoexodus in the dialect of Roermond
4: Draga Zec and Elizabeth Zsiga: The interplay of lexical and intonational tones in Serbian
5: Nina Hagen Kaldhol and Sverre Stausland Johnsen: There is no 'one High tone per word' rule in Somali
6: Patrik Bye: Lexical accent and intonation in Peninsular North Germanic pragmatics, phonology, geography, history
7: Björn Köhnlein and Yuhong Zhu: A metrical analysis of prosodically conditioned stem allomorphy in Uspanteko
8: Harry van der Hulst: Accents and how to get rid of them (or not)
9: Björn Köhnlein and Pavel Iosad: Notes on theoretical approaches to tonal accent
References
Index
