Prosody Matters

Introduction by the Editors Section1: Mora and Syllable 1. The Prosody of Moroccan Amazigh and Moroccan Arabic: Commonalities in the Phonology of Schwa Karim Bensoukas, Mohammed V-Agdal University, and Abdelaziz Boudlal, Chouaib Doukkali University 2. Serial Harmonic Grammar and Berber Syllabification Joe Pater, University of Massachusetts at Amherst 3. The Formal Definition of the ONSET Constraint and Implications for Korean Syllable Structure Jennifer Smith, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Section 2: Foot and Prosodic Word 4. The End of the Word in Makassar Languages Hasan Basri, Tadulako University, Ellen Broselow, Stony Brook University, and Daniel Finer, Stony Brook University 5. Final Devoicing: Production and Perception Studies Scott Myers, University of Texas at Austin 6. The Role of Prosody in Russian Voicing Jaye Padgett, University of California, Santa Cruz 7. Phonetic Evidence for Prosodic Word Prominence in American English Mariko Sugahara, Doshisha University Section 3. Phrases and Above 8. Variable Cues to Phrasing: Finding Edges in Egyptian Arabic Sam Hellmuth, University of York 9. Recursive Prosodic Phrasing in Japanese Ito Junko and Armin Mester, both at the University of California, Santa Cruz 10. The Intonation of Nominal Parentheticals in Japanese Shigeto Kawahara, Rutgers University 11. Pausal Phonology and Morpheme Realization John McCarthy, University of Massachusetts at Amherst 12. Reconsidering the Edge Parameter Hisao Tokizaki, Sapporo University Section 4: Prosodic Hierarchy and Semantic Interpretation (Focus) 13. Intonational Phrase Boundaries: A Puzzle Katy Carlson, Moorehead University, Lyn Frazier, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Charles CliftonJr., University of Massachusetts at Amherst 14. Prosody and Information Structure of the German Particles Selbst, Wieder and Auch Caroline Fery, Potsdam University 15. Prosodic Phrasing of Wh-questions in Tokyo Japanese Masako Hirotani, Carleton University 16. Effects of Indefinite Pronouns and Traces on Verb Stress in German Hubert Truckenbrodt, Tuebingen University