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First published in 1988. This study examines a number of issues
arising in multitiered nonlinear phonology in the light of the
Obligatory Contour Principle (OCP), which prohibits adjacent
identical elements at the melodic level, and aims to provide
another kind of evidence for segment-internal tier articulation.
This title will be of particular interest to students of
linguistics.
First published in 1988. This study examines a number of issues
arising in multitiered nonlinear phonology in the light of the
Obligatory Contour Principle (OCP), which prohibits adjacent
identical elements at the melodic level, and aims to provide
another kind of evidence for segment-internal tier articulation.
This title will be of particular interest to students of
linguistics.
Optimality Theory has become the dominant approach to studying
phonology, including analyses of the mapping from syntactic
structure to prosodic structure. However, when syntactic and
prosodic structures are represented as trees, it is difficult, if
not impossible, to systematically generate by hand all the possible
prosodic parses that must be considered in an Optimality Theory
investigation for any given syntactic input. Consequently, most
existing syntax-prosody analyses are in this way incomplete,
compromising their validity. This volume presents a series of
complete analyses of the syntax-prosody interface, thanks to their
use of the Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory (SPOT) application.
This JavaScript application, developed by the editors of this
volume, automates candidate generation and constraint evaluation,
making a rigorous Optimality Theory analysis of syntax-prosody
possible. SPOT allows the user to test the typological predictions
of the numerous proposed constraints on prosodic markedness and
syntax-prosody mapping, so that researchers can make progress
toward determining which formulations of the constraints should
actually be part of the universal constraint set. A theme of the
volume is comparing Selkirk’s Match Theory with the older Align
Theory of syntax-prosody mapping, finding that both are needed, at
least in some languages.
This volume brings together new work on prosody and prosodic
interfaces from international experts in the field. The book is
divided into three parts that explore topics in word prosody and
phrase prosody, lexical tone and intonation, and the syntax-prosody
interface. While many recent studies have focused on prosody and
related questions, a significant number of languages, dialects, and
varieties remain largely undocumented or understudied in this
respect. The chapters in this volume help to fill this empirical
gap, with investigations into languages such as Choguita Raramuri
(Mexico), Poko (Papua New Guinea), Rere (Sudan), and Uspanteko
(Guatemala), alongside more widely studied languages such as
Japanese and Serbian. The authors also address a range of important
questions pertaining to, for example, the interactions between
lexical and postlexical tones and the relationship between prosodic
and syntactic structure. The volume as a whole sheds light on how
prosody is structured in language and how it functions in human
communication.
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