Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface IX
3. Contents XI
4. Contents of Part I XIII
5. The Status of /m/ in #/m/C Sequences in Georgian 1
6. Gemination in Middle Indic 19
7. A Fake Diphthong in English 55
8. Deconstructing Secondary Stress 69
9. Is There Foot Structure in Isolating Languages? 99
10. Word Stress Placement in Wakhi 115
11. Mining Metrical Data 133
12. Interpreting Non-Canonical Word Prosody in Afro-European Contact 151
13. The Phonetic Basis for Tone-Stress Interactions: A Cross-Linguistic Study 171
14. Some Applications of the Primary Accent First Parameter 191
15. Accent as Autosegment: A Unified Account of Lexical Accent and Lexical Stress Systems 209
16. Stress Deaf and Color Blind: Native Language Background and Perceptual Categories 233
17. The Representation and Computation of Weight in Hybrid Accent Systems: The Case of Standard Eastern Mari 253
18. From Latent to Blatant: Unmasking Phonological Iconicity in Sign Language Theatre 271
19. A New Feature Type: Functional Features in Sign Languages 291
20. The Emergence of the Second Hand in Sign Language Phonology: From Underlying to Surface Representations 319
21. Phonological Processes in Shanghai Sign Language: Contexts, Constraints, and Structure 345
22. Language Index 363
23. Subject Index 367