Stress and Accent

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-107-09670-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 358 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 680 g

Reihe: Key Topics in Phonology

Stress and accent are central to the study of sound systems in language. This book surveys key work carried out on stress and accent and provides a comprehensive conceptual foundation to the field. It offers an up-to-date set of tools to examine stress and accent from a range of perspectives within metrical stress theory, connecting the acoustic phenomenon to a representation of timing, and to groupings of individual speech sounds. To develop connections, it draws heavily on the results of research into the perception of musical meter and rhythm. It explores the theory by surveying the types of stress and accent patterns found among the world's languages, introducing the tools that the theory provides, and then showing how the tools can be deployed to analyse the patterns. It includes a full glossary and there are lists of further reading materials and discussion points at the end of each chapter.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hyde, Brett

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Phonetik, Phonologie, Prosodie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Noise and timing; 2. Grouping; 3. Typology; 4. Correspondence: map and match; 5. Directionality; 6. Grid well-formedness: clash and lapse; 7. Domain boundaries; 8. Feet; 9. Summary and conclusion; Appendix; Glossary; References; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Hyde, Brett
Brett Hyde is Associate Professor of Linguistics, Philosophy, and Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology, and Director of the Linguistics Program at Washington University. He has published a series of articles on stress and accent and a book, Layering and Directionality (2016), that have established him as the foremost expert on metrical stress in Optimality Theory.