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Review published In: International Journal of Chinese Linguistics
Vol. 6:2 (2019) ► pp.345–356

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Rob Goedemans, Jeffrey Heinz, and Harry van der Hulst (eds.). 2019. The Study of Word Stress and Accent: Theories, Methods and Data

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 | Nankai University, China
Published online: 14 January 2020
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ijchl.00006.wei
Article outline
  • Part I.Phonetic correlates and prominence distinctions
    • 1.Vincent van Heuven: Acoustic correlates and perceptual cues of word and sentence stress: Towards a cross-linguistic perspectives
    • 2.Larry Hyman: Positional prominence versus word accent: Is there a difference?
    • 3.Anya Lunden: Explaining word-final stress lapse
    • 4.Natalia Kuznetsova: What Danish and Estonian can show to a modern word-prosodic typology
  • Part II.Typology
    • 5.René Kager and Violeta Martínez-Paricio: Mora and syllable accentuation: Typology and representation
    • 6.Hisao Tokizaki: Word stress, pitch accent, and word order typology with special reference to Altaic
  • Part III.Case studies
    • 7.Keren Rice: Persistence and change in stem prominence in Dene (Athabaskan) languages
    • 8.Iggy Roca: Spanish word stress: An updated multidimensional account
    • 9.Björn Köhnlein: Metrically conditioned pitch accent in Uspanteko
    • 10.Haruo Kubozono: Focus prosody in Kagoshima Japanese
    • 11.Björn Köhnlein and Marc van Oostendorp: Where is the Dutch stress system? Some new data
    • 12.Nicholas Rolle and Marine Vuillermet: Morphologically assigned accent and an initial three-syllable window in Ese’eja
    • 13.Alexandre Vaxman: The scales-and-parameters approach to morpheme-specific exceptions in accent assignment
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