This book provides a state-of-the-art survey of intonation and prosodic structure. Taking a
phonological perspective, it shows how morpho-syntactic constituents are mapped to …

Stratal Phonology is a theory of how phonology interacts with other components of grammar.
Stratal Phonology rejects the claims of Strict Cyclicity and Structure Preservation, which …

This paper describes and analyzes phonological processes pertinent to the glottal stop in
A'ingae (or Cofán, iso 639-3: con). The operations which the glottal stops undergo and …

What is the relationship between phonetics and phonology? Are phonological features
innate and universal, and do they have fixed phonetic correlates? These questions have …

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 paper presents a phonological analysis of a glottalization phenomenon in dialects of
Danish known as 'short-vowel stød'. It is argued that both short-vowel stød and common …

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 …

The typology of word prosody still remains a subject of debate, though it has been widely
discussed since Trubetzkoy (1939). Tone and stress remain the central units of classification …

Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics provide overviews of a whole subject area or
subdiscipline in linguistics, and survey the state of the discipline including emerging and …