This work examines the way in which prominence—a perceptual feature that is highlighted by speakers as being important through prosodic, syntactic, and semant

Top researchers explore the nature of stress and accent patterns in languages, especially the nature of their representations and how people learn them.

A team of world-renowned phonologists present new perspectives on word stress, exploring stress as a phenomenon, data selection, and analysis.

This volume focuses on the theoretical and analytical challenges that languages with complex morphologies pose for the theory and typology of word-level prosodi

An intelligibility-based approach to teaching that presents pronunciation as critical, yet neglected, in communicative language teaching.