The topic of this study is grammatical tone (GT), which I define as a tonological operation
that is not general across the phonological grammar, and is restricted to the context of a …

Recent studies indicated that Papuan Malay, spoken in the Eastern provinces of Indonesia,
has regular penultimate word stress. Only when schwa occurs in the penultimate syllable …

Pitjantjatajra is an Australian language, part of the Greater Western Desert language dialect
chain. In this study we focus on the lexical prosody of Pitjantjatjara, and show that the left …

In this contribution I raise the question of what phonological typology is, can, or should be. I
start by asking what linguistic typology is and then turn to the problem: despite the …

This dissertation investigates stress assignment in lexical accent systems within the
framework of the Accent-First Theory (van der Hulst 1984, 1996, 2012, 2014). The main …

Mande is a mid-range language family (its time depth ranges between 5000 and 6000
years) presumably belonging to the Niger-Congo macrofamily. It comprises more than 70 …

This paper proposes that the presence/absence of the Foot is parametric; that is, contra
much previous research (see eg Selkirk, Elisabeth (1995). Sentence prosody: intonation …

It is widely accepted that languages organize speech material into prosodic domains, which
are hierarchically arranged. However, it is still a matter of debate whether this prosodic …

There is no consensus on the nature, or even the existence, of Vietnamese word stress.
While some authors have proposed that it is morphosyntactically conditioned (Thompson …

This article argues that the prosodic category stress in West Germanic languages, which
implicitly underlies practically all work on stress, is a complex cluster concept consisting of at …