Word Prosodic Systems in the Languages of Europe

Contents
Contributors
Abbreviations
Part I – Thematic Chapters
	1 Word accent
		1.1 Introduction
		1.2 Basic concepts
		1.3 Metrical theory
		1.4 Overview
		1.5 Accent and tone
		1.6 Terms, transcriptions and conventions
		1.7 Concluding remark
	2 Stress domains
		2.1 Introduction
		2.2 The prosodic hierarchy
		2.3 The mapping of compounds onto prosodic structure
		2.4 Postlexical word stress readjustments
		2.5 Conclusions
	3 The rhythmic organization of compounds and phrases
		3.1 Introduction
		3.2 Stress shift and stress strengthening: theoretical background
		3.3 Bracketed grids: the assignment of stress above the word level
		3.4 Move x and Add x in English
		3.5 The case of Dutch: a comparison with English
		3.6 Language sketches
		3.7 Summary and conclusions
	4 Word prosody and intonation
		4.1 Introduction
		4.2 Lexical and postlexical tones
		4.3 Intonation and secondary stress
		4.4 Summary and conclusions
	5 The phonetic manifestation of word stress
		5.1 The phonetic manifestation of word stress in Lithuanian, Polish and German and Spanish
		5.2 The phonetic manifestation of stress in Welsh
	6 Diachronic prosody
		6.1 Introduction
		6.2 Common Germanic
		6.3 West Germanic
		6.4 North Germanic
		6.5 Typology of Germanic quantity shift
		6.6 Development of tonal accents
		6.7 Romance loans
		6.8 Romance
		6.9 Summary of types of changes in metrical systems
Part II – Case Studies
	7 A survey of word prosodic systems of European languages
		7.1 Introduction
		7.2 Language summaries
		7.3 Classification by type
	8 Word-stress in West-Germanic and North-Germanic languages
		8.0 Introduction
		8.1 Word stress in West-Germanic languages
		8.2 Word stress in North-Germanic languages
	9 Word tone in Germanic languages
		9.1 Scandinavian languages
		9.2 A description of tonal accent in a Limburgian dialect
	10 Stress in the Romance languages
		10.1 Introduction
		10.2 Syllable windows and extrametricality
		10.3 Closed syllables
		10.4 Verbs
		10.5 Interaction with morphology
		10.6 Summary and conclusions
	11 Slavic languages
		11.1 West Slavic
		11.2 South Slavic
		11.3 Russian
		11.3 Introduction
	12 Baltic languages
		12.1 Introduction
		12.2 Lithuanian
		12.3 Latvian
	13 Greek word accent
		13.1 Introduction
		13.2 The parameters
		13.3 Unstressed, underived and uninflected words
		13.4 Adjectives
		13.5 Nouns
		13.6 The verb
		13.7 The clitics
		13.8 Dialectal variation of the verb
		13.9 Prefixing
		13.10 Compounds
		13.11 Summary and conclusions
	14 Basque accentuation
		14.1 Introduction
		14.2 The Western type
		14.3 The Central type
		14.4 The Hondarribia type
		14.5 The Northern High Navarrese type
		14.6 The Southern High Navarrese type
		14.7 The Labourdin/Low Navarrese type
		14.8 The Souletin/Roncalese or Eastern type
		14.9 Summary and conclusions
	15 Caucasian: Daghestanian languages
		15.2 Examples arranged according to family and prosodic type
		15.3 Conclusion
Index of authors
Index of languages
Index of subjects