Prosodic structure and focus realization in West Greenlandic
Abstract This chapter introduces the prosody of West Greenlandic, a language without lexical tones, stress, or pitch accents. Based on different types of data, the chapter discusses the prosodic structure, focusing on the mora, phonological word, and intonation phrase. It also outlines prosodic effe...
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Oxford University PressOxford
2014
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199567300.003.0008 https://academic.oup.com/book/27198/chapter/196653066 |
| Summary: | Abstract This chapter introduces the prosody of West Greenlandic, a language without lexical tones, stress, or pitch accents. Based on different types of data, the chapter discusses the prosodic structure, focusing on the mora, phonological word, and intonation phrase. It also outlines prosodic effects of information structure. |
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