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 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 …

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 …

The aim of this paper is to show that a sequence of typologically not unusual sound changes
has led to three conspicuous properties of the dialects in a large connected area of Low and …

We describe a prosodic pattern that is part of standard negation in five Alaskan Dene
languages spoken along the Tanana River. In all of these varieties, this “negative high” …

6.1 Scatter plot of phase angle by metronome speed (speech rate), Experiment 3 (red=
Syllable 2, yellow= Syllable 3, green= Syllable 4, blue= Syllable 5, purple= Syllable 6). Each …

This paper examines the genesis of a tonal semi-reversal in Franconian tone accent
dialects, the so-called Rule A vs. Rule B. Contrary to the traditional assumption, the reversal …

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tonal accents as Northern Gaelic features Reconsidering contact origins Citation for …

This paper examines the genesis of a tonal semi-reversal in Franconian tone accent
dialects, the so-called Rule A vs. Rule B. Contrary to the traditional assumption, the reversal …