2025/05/28 by Björn Köhnlein, Pavel Iosad · 1 voice
Computer Science · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Linguistic Variation and Morphology #Phonetics and Phonology Research #Speech Recognition and Synthesis
paper · doi:10.1093/9780191988080.003.0009
openalex publication_date 2025/05/28 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11
Abstract The chapters of this collection present a wide range of often quite divergent theoretical perspectives on, and analytical approaches to, the phenomena gathered under the umbrella of ‘tonal accent’. It is one of the aims of this collection, and specifically of this concluding chapter, to emphasize the importance of this theoretical diversity. In particular, it is suggested that adopting a multiplicity of perspectives has the advantage of uncovering new aspects of the phenomena of interest, even when the data themselves have already been subjected to a long tradition of description, analysis, and interpretation. Here, it is argued that such a wide diversity of approaches is particularly beneficial in the case of ‘tonal accent’ phenomena: word-prosodic typology often focuses solely on the presence and interaction of tone and stress, but this may detract from an examination of other phenomena within relevant languages that at least potentially have a bearing on our analysis of its prosodic system.