Book contents
- The Study of Word Stress and Accent
- The Study of Word Stress and Accent
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Phonetic Correlates and Prominence Distinctions
- 1 Acoustic Correlates and Perceptual Cues of Word and Sentence Stress
- 2 Positional Prominence versus Word Accent
- 3 Explaining Word-Final Stress Lapse
- 4 What Danish and Estonian Can Show to a Modern Word-Prosodic Typology
- Part II Typology
- Part III Case Studies
- Language Index
- Subject Index
- References
2 - Positional Prominence versus Word Accent
Is There a Difference?
from Part I - Phonetic Correlates and Prominence Distinctions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 December 2018
Book contents
- The Study of Word Stress and Accent
- The Study of Word Stress and Accent
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Phonetic Correlates and Prominence Distinctions
- 1 Acoustic Correlates and Perceptual Cues of Word and Sentence Stress
- 2 Positional Prominence versus Word Accent
- 3 Explaining Word-Final Stress Lapse
- 4 What Danish and Estonian Can Show to a Modern Word-Prosodic Typology
- Part II Typology
- Part III Case Studies
- Language Index
- Subject Index
- References
Summary
Hyman addresses what exactly counts as accent, a problem which is further complicated in languages with tone or so-called pitch-accent. Hyman analyzes three African cases, each of which display diverse positional prominence effects that are clearly word level, reasonably subject to a metrical (accentual) interpretation, but which do not consistently coincide. In Ibibio, a Cross-River language spoken in Nigeria, greater consonant and vowel contrasts suggest that the initial stem syllable is the accented head of a trochaic foot, whose required shape varies, however, by construction. In Punu, a Bantu language spoken in Gabon, tone suggests that the word-penultimate syllable is accented, while vowel length suggests that both stem-initial and word-penultimate syllables are accented. In Lulamogi, a small, understudied Bantu language spoken in Uganda, vowel length suggests that all stem (vs. prefix) and word-penultimate syllables are accented, while tone suggests it is the penult.
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- The Study of Word Stress and AccentTheories, Methods and Data, pp. 60 - 75Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018
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