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Book SynopsisStress and accent patterns are organizing features of natural language. This book presents in-depth analysis and research by top scholars investigating the nature of stress and accent patterns in natural language, and it examines the question of how children acquire the stress and accent patterns of their native language.
Table of ContentsIntroduction Jeffrey Heinz, Rob Goedemans and Harry van der Hulst; 1. Metrical incoherence: diachronic sources and synchronic analysis Matthew Gordon; 2. The role of phenomenal accent Brett Hyde; 3. Foot alignment in Spanish secondary stress Eugene Buckley; 4. The interaction of metrical structure and tone in standard Chinese Yanyan Sui; 5. Prominence, contrast and the functional load hypothesis: an acoustic investigation Irene Vogel, Angeliki Athanasopoulou and Nadya Pincus; 6. Iquito: the prosodic colon and evaluation of OT stress accounts Nina Topintzi; 7. Investigating the efficiency of parsing strategies for the gradual learning algorithm Gaja Jarosz; 8. Covert representations, contrast, and the acquisition of lexical accent B. Elan Dresher; 9. One or many? In search of the default stress in Greek Anthi Revithiadou and Angelos Lengeris; 10. The development of rhythmic preferences by Dutch-learning infants Brigitta Keij and René Kager; 11. Acoustic characteristics of infant-directed speech as a function of prosodic typology Yuanyuan Wang, Amanda Seidl and Alejandrina Cristia.
