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Jonathan Barnes and Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel (eds.) (2022). Prosodic theory and practice. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Pp. ix + 453.

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Range in the use and realization of BIN in African American English

This paper jointly considers syntactic, semantic and phonological/phonetic factors in approaching an understanding of BIN, a remote past marker in African American English that has been described as "stressed". It brings together data from the Corpus …

Representing multiple dependencies in prosodic structures

Association of tones to prosodic trees was introduced in Pierrehumbert & Beckman (1988). This included: (i) tonal association to higher-level prosodic nodes such as intonational phrases, and (ii) multiple association of a tone to a higher-level …

Phonetic implementation of phonologically different high tone plateaus in Luganda

Work on incomplete neutralization in the phonetic implementation of phonological processes is under active investigation with segments, but with much less progress on tones. In Luganda, underlyingly different phonological representations of tones can …

Tonal marking of absolutive case in Samoan

Samoan is an ergative-marking, (reportedly) non-tonal Polynesian language in which ergative case is marked segmentally, but absolutive case has been said to be unmarked. This paper shows that in fact, a high edge tone co-occurs with absolutive …

The role of time in phonetic spaces: Temporal resolution in Cantonese tone perception

The role of temporal resolution in speech perception (e.g. whether tones are parameterized with fundamental frequency sampled every 10 ms, or just twice in the syllable) is sometimes overlooked, and the temporal resolution relevant for tonal …

The experimental state of mind in elicitation: illustrations from tonal fieldwork

This paper illustrates how an 'experimental state of mind', i.e. principles of experimental design, can inform hypothesis generation and testing in structured fieldwork elicitation. The application of these principles is demonstrated with case …

The role of creaky voice in Cantonese tone perception

There are few studies on the role of phonation cues in the perception of lexical tones in tonal languages where pitch is the primary dimension of contrast. This study shows that listeners are sensitive to creaky phonation in native tonal perception …