Word Prosodic Systems in the Languages of Europe

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The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics. (Added pages that were missing in the previous upload) Contents Contributors Abbreviations Part I – Thematic Chapters 1 Word accent 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Basic concepts 1.3 Metrical theory 1.4 Overview 1.5 Accent and tone 1.6 Terms, transcriptions and conventions 1.7 Concluding remark 2 Stress domains 2.1 Introduction 2.2 The prosodic hierarchy 2.3 The mapping of compounds onto prosodic structure 2.4 Postlexical word stress readjustments 2.5 Conclusions 3 The rhythmic organization of compounds and phrases 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Stress shift and stress strengthening: theoretical background 3.3 Bracketed grids: the assignment of stress above the word level 3.4 Move x and Add x in English 3.5 The case of Dutch: a comparison with English 3.6 Language sketches 3.7 Summary and conclusions 4 Word prosody and intonation 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Lexical and postlexical tones 4.3 Intonation and secondary stress 4.4 Summary and conclusions 5 The phonetic manifestation of word stress 5.1 The phonetic manifestation of word stress in Lithuanian, Polish and German and Spanish 5.2 The phonetic manifestation of stress in Welsh 6 Diachronic prosody 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Common Germanic 6.3 West Germanic 6.4 North Germanic 6.5 Typology of Germanic quantity shift 6.6 Development of tonal accents 6.7 Romance loans 6.8 Romance 6.9 Summary of types of changes in metrical systems Part II – Case Studies 7 A survey of word prosodic systems of European languages 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Language summaries 7.3 Classification by type 8 Word-stress in West-Germanic and North-Germanic languages 8.0 Introduction 8.1 Word stress in West-Germanic languages 8.2 Word stress in North-Germanic languages 9 Word tone in Germanic languages 9.1 Scandinavian languages 9.2 A description of tonal accent in a Limburgian dialect 10 Stress in the Romance languages 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Syllable windows and extrametricality 10.3 Closed syllables 10.4 Verbs 10.5 Interaction with morphology 10.6 Summary and conclusions 11 Slavic languages 11.1 West Slavic 11.2 South Slavic 11.3 Russian 11.3 Introduction 12 Baltic languages 12.1 Introduction 12.2 Lithuanian 12.3 Latvian 13 Greek word accent 13.1 Introduction 13.2 The parameters 13.3 Unstressed, underived and uninflected words 13.4 Adjectives 13.5 Nouns 13.6 The verb 13.7 The clitics 13.8 Dialectal variation of the verb 13.9 Prefixing 13.10 Compounds 13.11 Summary and conclusions 14 Basque accentuation 14.1 Introduction 14.2 The Western type 14.3 The Central type 14.4 The Hondarribia type 14.5 The Northern High Navarrese type 14.6 The Southern High Navarrese type 14.7 The Labourdin/Low Navarrese type 14.8 The Souletin/Roncalese or Eastern type 14.9 Summary and conclusions 15 Caucasian: Daghestanian languages 15.2 Examples arranged according to family and prosodic type 15.3 Conclusion Index of authors Index of languages Index of subjects