Prosodic Studies

Introduction Hongming Zhang Part I: Prosodic Hierarchy 1. Life After the Strict Layer Hypothesis: Prosodic Structure Geometry Irene Vogel 2. The Revised Max Onset: Syllabification and Stress in English San Duanmu 3. Enclitics and the Clitic Group Consisting of "Host+Enclitic" in the Fuzhou Dialect Shuxiang You Part II: Prosodic Patterns 4. Geographical Clines in the Realization of Intonation in the Netherlands Judith Hanssen, Carlos Gussenhoven, Jorg Peters 5. A Prosodic Essence Conjecture Lian-Hee Wee 6. Phonological Representations Based on Statistical Modelling in Tonal Languages Si Chen 7. Prosodic Encoding of Contrastive Focus in Shanghai Chinese Bijun Ling, Jie Liang Part III: Interface between Prosody and Syntax/Morphology 8. What Kinds of Processes are Postlexical? And How Powerful are They? Ellen M. Kaisse 9. Match Theory and Prosodic Wellformedness Constraints Junko Ito, Armin Mester 10. Prosodic Studies of Two Chinese Dialects Hongming Zhang Part IV: Prosody in Language Acquisition 11. Perceptual Development of Phonetic Categories in Early Infancy: Consonants, Vowels and Lexical Tones Jun Gao, Rushen Shi 12. F0 Development in Cantonese Pre-adolescent Children Wai-Sum Lee 13. The Positional Effects of Contour Tones in Second Language Chinese Hang Zhang