GUEST LECTURE
Lian-Hee Wee
Tonal prosody
Date & Time
18.5.2023, 1:15 PM CET
Location
Trainee Centre Online
Abstract
While it is evident to many that tone is a prosodic entity, it remains unclear, to me at least, how one can develop a unified understanding with better known ideas from metrical phonology. This talk offers my reflection on two main sets of the ideas concerning a prosodic treatment of tone: in relation to prosodic wordhood and in relation to domains of tonal patterning. I suggest that for prosodic purposes, tone and stress are the same thing, and I offer a prosodic essence conjecture.
Bio
Lian-Hee
Wee is Professor of Linguistics at the Hong Kong Baptist University. He has
published more than 10 books and numerous articles covering various aspects of
linguistics and culture. His recent representative works are Phonological Tone
(Cambridge UP, 2019) and Complexity in the Phonology of Tone (Cambridge UP)
forthcoming, with Mingxing Li)