Word stress in prosodic theory

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-98554-141-6
Verlag: Language Science Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 551 g

Reihe: Studies in Laboratory Phonology

This book is composed of four studies that all investigate different aspects of word stress in Papuan Malay, an Austronesian language spoken in eastern Indonesia. These aspects, in order of presentation, include acoustic realisation, auditory perception, lexical analyses and word disambiguation. The introduction provides the theoretical background against which the studies are undertaken. All studies are empirical in nature; they either report acoustic analyses, production or perception experiments, or corpus-based analyses. Taken together, the results of all studies pose a challenge to maintaining a stressless analysis of Papuan Malay. At the same time, the type of word stress that emerges from the reported results is unlike its common theoretical conception and therefore requires more work to be integrated in prosodic theory. Given the controversy on word stress in Indonesian languages, the results are always discussed and carefully interpreted in a cross-linguistic context. In this way, the current thesis extends and deepens our knowledge and understanding of word stress in prosodic theory.

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Kaland, Constantijn

Über Autor(innen)

Kaland, Constantijn
Constantijn Kaland studied Linguistics at Leiden University, obtained a PhD from Tilburg University and completed a habilitation at the University of Cologne. He was appointed at the University of Malta, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, and Utrecht University. He is fascinated by the phonetics of prosody and how languages differ from each other. It remains a mystery to him why and how human speech is meaningful. His work spans the interfaces between phonetics and phonology, between segmental and suprasegmental phenomena, and incorporates socio-psychological, computational, cognitive and typological aspects of language.