Problems of prosodic parallelism: A reply to Wiese and Speyer (2015)
Gerrit Kentner
direct link: http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/004326
September 2015
In their recent contribution, Wiese and Speyer (2015) come forward with a very interesting proposal regarding the effect of supra-lexical prosody on word prosodic structure. The proposal, the simplicity and elegance of which is captivating, is this: when given the choice, speakers strive for a rendition that maximizes prosodic parallelism; for two words that are prosodic phrase mates the foot structures are preferably parallel, i.e., the feet have the same number of syllables and stress pattern. This reply is a critical appraisal of Wiese and Speyer (2015).
| Format: | [ pdf ] |
| Reference: | lingbuzz/004326 (please use that when you cite this article) |
| Published in: | Linguistics 53.5 (2015): 1233-1241 |
| keywords: | schwa, rhythm, meter, metrical structure, parallelism, phrasing, foot, stress, clitic, function word, morphology, phonology |