This thesis presents a principled theory of bounded recursive footing. Building on previous
research on metrical stress, and couched within the framework of Prosodic Hierarchy …

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 …

This thesis presents an approach to phonological computation and representation which
combines the tenets of substance-free phonology, a framework which implies that …

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 provides a detailed representational analysis of the morpho-prosodic system of
underived nouns in a dialect of Swedish. It shows that the morphology, stress and tonal …

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 …

This paper considers the origin of “pitch accents” in Scottish Gaelic with a view to evaluating
the hypothesis that this feature was borrowed from North Germanic varieties spoken by …

The West Germanic language Low German as spoken in northern Germany and the north-
eastern part of the Netherlands is defined as a regional minority language in the sense of …

Central and Low Franconian dialects seem to provide counterevidence to alleged universals
of unattested correlations of (a) tone and postvocalic voicing, and (b) tone and vowel height …