Word Prosodic Systems in the Languages of Europe
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Word Prosodic Systems in the Languages of Europe

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Word Prosodic Systems in the Languages of Europe

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Table of contents

  1. Contributors
  2. Abbreviations
  3. Part I – Thematic Chapters
  4. 1 Word accent
  5. 1.1 Introduction
  6. 1.2 Basic concepts
  7. 1.3 Metrical theory
  8. 1.4 Overview
  9. 1.5 Accent and tone
  10. 1.6 Terms, transcriptions and conventions
  11. 1.7 Concluding remark
  12. 2 Stress domains
  13. 2.1 Introduction
  14. 2.2 The prosodic hierarchy
  15. 2.3 The mapping of compounds onto prosodic structure
  16. 2.4 Postlexical word stress readjustments
  17. 2.5 Conclusions
  18. 3 The rhythmic organization of compounds and phrases
  19. 3.1 Introduction
  20. 3.2 Stress shift and stress strengthening: theoretical background
  21. 3.3 Bracketed grids: the assignment of stress above the word level
  22. 3.4 Move x and Add x in English
  23. 3.5 The case of Dutch: a comparison with English
  24. 3.6 Language sketches
  25. 3.7 Summary and conclusions
  26. 4 Word prosody and intonation
  27. 4.1 Introduction
  28. 4.2 Lexical and postlexical tones
  29. 4.3 Intonation and secondary stress
  30. 4.4 Summary and conclusions
  31. 5 The phonetic manifestation of word stress
  32. 5.1 The phonetic manifestation of word stress in Lithuanian, Polish and German and Spanish
  33. 5.2 The phonetic manifestation of stress in Welsh
  34. 6 Diachronic prosody
  35. 6.1 Introduction
  36. 6.2 Common Germanic
  37. 6.3 West Germanic
  38. 6.4 North Germanic
  39. 6.5 Typology of Germanic quantity shift
  40. 6.6 Development of tonal accents
  41. 6.7 Romance loans
  42. 6.8 Romance
  43. 6.9 Summary of types of changes in metrical systems
  44. Part II – Case Studies
  45. 7 A survey of word prosodic systems of European languages
  46. 7.1 Introduction
  47. 7.2 Language summaries
  48. 7.3 Classification by type
  49. 8 Word-stress in West-Germanic and North-Germanic languages
  50. 8.0 Introduction
  51. 8.1 Word stress in West-Germanic languages
  52. 8.2 Word stress in North-Germanic languages
  53. 9 Word tone in Germanic languages
  54. 9.1 Scandinavian languages
  55. 9.2 A description of tonal accent in a Limburgian dialect
  56. 10 Stress in the Romance languages
  57. 10.1 Introduction
  58. 10.2 Syllable windows and extrametricality
  59. 10.3 Closed syllables
  60. 10.4 Verbs
  61. 10.5 Interaction with morphology
  62. 10.6 Summary and conclusions
  63. 11 Slavic languages
  64. 11.1 West Slavic
  65. 11.2 South Slavic
  66. 11.3 Russian
  67. 11.3 Introduction
  68. 12 Baltic languages
  69. 12.1 Introduction
  70. 12.2 Lighuanian
  71. 12.3 Latvian
  72. 13 Greek word accent
  73. 13.1 Introduction
  74. 13.2 The parameters
  75. 13.3 Unstressed, underived and uninflected words
  76. 13.4 Adjectives
  77. 13.5 Nouns
  78. 13.6 The verb
  79. 13.7 The clitics
  80. 13.8 Dialectal variation of the verb
  81. 13.9 Prefixing
  82. 13.10 Compounds
  83. 13.11 Summary and conclusions
  84. 14 Basque accentuation
  85. 14.1 Introduction
  86. 14.2 The Western type
  87. 14.3 The Central type
  88. 14.4 The Hondarribia type
  89. 14.5 The Northern High Navarrese type
  90. 14.6 The Southern High Navarrese type
  91. 14.7 The Labourdin/Low Navarrese type
  92. 14.8 The Souletin/Roncalese or Eastern type
  93. 14.9 Summary and conclusions
  94. 15 Caucasian: Daghestanian languages
  95. 15.2 Examples arranged according to family and prosodic type
  96. 15.3 Conclusion
  97. Index of authors
  98. Index of languages
  99. Index of subjects