Franconian has a contrast between two tone accents, commonly referred to as Accent 1 and
Accent 2. Traditional autosegmental analyses of the phenomenon suggest that this …

Scottish Gaelic displays a phonological contrast that is realised in different dialects by
means of tonal accent, glottalisation or overlength. In line with existing analyses of similar …

This chapter discusses tonal accent in North and West Germanic. Varieties with tonal accent
display (primarily) tone-based oppositions between two accents in stressed syllables …

Based on a first-time acoustic analysis of the checked-tone sandhi patterns in Suzhou
(Northern Wu), I argue that the tone sandhi pattern of light-initial prosodic words in Suzhou …

A notoriously contested subarea of phonological typology is word-prosodic typology, which
governs suprasegmental structure (such as tone, syllable structure and stress) at the word …

Various German dialects delete certain word-final plosives in plural forms (eg
[hʊnt]'dog'vs.[hʊn]'dogs'). I claim that this type of subtractive pluralisation is best analysed as …

Many perception and processing effects of the lexical status of tone have been found in
behavioral, psycholinguistic, and neuroscientific research, often pitting varieties of tonal …

In Uspanteko, a Mayan language spoken in Guatemala, certain possessive prefixes lead to
variation in stress and pitch accent and can sometimes trigger vowel length alternations or …

Recent years witness a re-emergence of a debate on the phonological representation of
tonal accent, which bears on fundamental questions concerning word-level prosodic …

Based on a first-time acoustic analysis of the checked-tone sandhi patterns in Suzhou
(Northern Wu; author's fieldwork), I argue that the tone sandhi patterns in Suzhou can best …