Language is one of the most fundamental defining features of the human being, and
scholars have been trying to capture its essentials for thousands of years. One way of doing …

The study of the acoustic correlates of word stress has been a fruitful area of phonetic
research since the seminal research on American English by Dennis Fry over 50 years ago …

This paper presents new proposals for the reconstruction of Proto-Basque accentuation, as
well as the development and chronology of the main accentual systems of the modern …

Swedish stress and tone accent exhibits an interesting mixture of properties. I argue that the
stress system is arranged in a largely morphological fashion, with clear similarities to …

This book presents a new reconstruction of Proto-Basque, the mother language of modern
Basque varieties, historical Basque, and Aquitanian, grounded in traditional methods of …

Goizueta is a small town in northwestern Navarre, Spain, bordering Gipuzkoa. According to
the most recent official figures, it has slightly over 800 inhabitants, about 95% of whom …

The term 'pitch-accent language'is used in reference to languages like Swedish, where
words contrast in the melody associated with the stressed syllable, and it is also applied to …

The existence of phonological tone in Carranza Tsotsil (Mayan), proposed by Sarles and
Kaufman, has been controversial since Herrera (,) rejected it. Based on phonetic evidence …

Among geographical varieties of the Basque language, we find a surprising diversity of
accentual systems, including several different accent assigment rules and systems with …

This paper focuses on the spectral properties of anterior sibilant fricatives in Northern
Peninsular Spanish, and sibilant-merging and non-merging varieties of Basque. Non …