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Féry's description of phrase languages assumes that certain layers of the prosodic hierarchy need not have any empirical signal. Finally, Féry does not discuss any of the criticisms of the prosodic hierarchy (Scheer 2011: 332), nor research that suggests that prosodic structures might be better explained as emergent properties from language use and history rather than as causally related to a universal latent prosodic hierarchy (Bybee 2007; Woodbury 1992, 1998; Bickel, Hildebrandt & Schiering 2009; Schiering et al. 2010). It is not entirely clear whether these language types are pigeon-holes posited for expositional purposes or whether Féry intends the classification to be informative beyond what falls out of the classification (presence or absence of lexical tone and stress). Chapter 8 also discusses phrase languages which are a "new category" that 'resemble intonation languages in that their tonal specifications are mostly assigned at the level of -phrases and -phrases. [Extracted from the article] |
