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

On the Temporal Domain of Focal Accent

Vincent J. van Heuven

Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics/ Phonetics Laboratory, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

Accented words are longer than their unaccented counterparts. Our contribution studies the domain of this lengthening effect: is it the (stem) morpheme, the (complex) word, or the phrase? We present preliminary evidence, from the literature and from a recent experiment by ourselves, that the lengthening domain extends beyond the monomorphemic word, but not beyond the level of the compound.

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Bibliographic reference.  Heuven, Vincent J. van (1993): "On the temporal domain of focal accent", In Prosody-1993, 132-135.