Since the publication of Chomsky, Halle, and Lukoff 1956, it has generally been assumed
that (surface) constituent structure is the fundamental determinant of phrase (and sentence) …

This thesis investigates how phonological. phrases are related to the syntactic
representation, to focus, and to the representation of prominence.. The proposal that is …

In loanword phonology we seek to uncover the processes by which speakers possessing
one phonological system perceive, apply native representational constraints on, and …

Prosodic Features and Prosodic Structure presents an overall view of the nature of prosodic
features of language-accent, stress, rhythm, tone, pitch, and intonation-and shows how …

I will argue that loanword phonology in Cantonese does not exist as a separate component
of the grammar and that the differences between English language source forms and their …

First Published in 2002. Part of the Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics series, this is an
in-depth investigation of the effects of duration and sonority on contour tone distribution. The …

First Published in 1997. The alternation between high vowels and glides is shown here to
follow from the interaction of phonological constraints as defined by Prince and Smolensky's …

Word-form encoding of disyllabic words in Mandarin Chinese was investigated with the
implicit priming paradigm. Experiments 1a and 1b examined implicit priming for two …

Annotation This book argues a fresh theory about the structure of tone. Bao investigates a
wide range of tone sandhi data from various Chinese dialects and other Asian tone …

This paper has two goals. The first is to pursue and further motivate some ideas developed
in Padgett (1995a) on the status of the notion feature class in phonological theory. The …