36.2104, Books: Word Stress in Prosodic Theory: Kaland (2025)

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Subject: 36.2104, Books: Word Stress in Prosodic Theory: Kaland (2025)

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Date: 08-Jul-2025
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [support at langsci-press.org]
Subject: Word Stress in Prosodic Theory: Kaland (2025)


Title: Word stress in prosodic theory
Series Title: Studies in Laboratory Phonology
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Language Science Press
           http://langsci-press.org
Book URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/472

Author(s): Constantijn Kaland

eBook

Abstract:

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.

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics
                     Phonology

Written In: English (eng)



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