Mary E. Beckman
List of John Benjamins publications in which Mary E. Beckman is involved.
Articles
2011 Tone inventories and tune-text alignments: Prosodic variation in ‘hybrid’ prosodic systems Language Change in Contact Languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations, Clements, J. Clancy and Shelome Gooden (eds.), pp. 137–176 | Article
The “hybrid” prosodic systems described for several Caribbean creoles challenge typologies that dichotomize between “intonation languages” and “tone languages” or between “stress” and “pitch-accent” languages. A more nuanced differentiation emerges if languages are compared in terms of questions… read more
2009 Prosodic structure and consonant development across languages Phonetics and Phonology: Interactions and interrelations, Vigário, Marina, Sónia Frota and M. João Freitas (eds.), pp. 109–136 | Article
This paper relates consonant development in first-language acquisition to the mastery of rhythmic structure, starting with the emergence of the “core syllable” in babbling. We first review results on very early phonetic development that suggest how a rich hierarchy of language-specific metrical… read more
2009 Tone inventories and tune-text alignments: Prosodic variation in ‘hybrid’ prosodic systems Language Change in Contact Languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations, Clements, J. Clancy and Shelome Gooden (eds.), pp. 396–436 | Article
The “hybrid” prosodic systems described for several Caribbean creoles challenge typologies that dichotomize between “intonation languages” and “tone languages” or between “stress” and “pitch-accent” languages. A more nuanced differentiation emerges if languages are compared in terms of questions… read more