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

Establishing Prosodic Structure by Measuring Segment Duration

Elise Hofhuis

Department of Language and Speech, Nijmegen University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

In this paper we describe two experiments which show how knowledge about segment durations can de used to decide between prosodic theories. One experiment shows us that unstressed word-final heavy syllables do not form separate feet. A second experiment demonstrates that word initial monosyllabic feet are not feet postlexically.

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Bibliographic reference.  Hofhuis, Elise (1993): "Establishing prosodic structure by measuring segment duration", In Prosody-1993, 136-139.