ESCA Workshop on Prosody Lund, Sweden September 27-29, 1993

Notes on the Phonology of Prominence

D. Robert Ladd

Department of Linguistics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

An explicitly phonological approach to prosody, of the sort provided by autosegmental and metrical theory, is necessary for understanding the relationships among different prosodic phenomena. Prominence is not a simple phonetic property of syllables but a complex phenomenon reflecting the metrical structure of a phrase or utterance, the location of (intonational) pitch accents, and the utterance's paralinguistic aspects.

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Bibliographic reference.  Ladd, D. Robert (1993): "Notes on the phonology of prominence", In Prosody-1993, 10-15.