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Focus on the prefix: evidence for word-internal prosodic words*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 October 2008

Ann Wennerstrom
Ann Wennerstrom
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University of Washington
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This paper presents an analysis of the relationship between focus and the prosodic word (ω) in English. Using focus as a diagnostic, I will support the position that prosodic structure is built on a separate plane from morphological structure and that certain phonological processes are conditioned by prosodic bracketing (Booij & Rubach 1984, 1987; Nespor & Vogel 1986; Halle & Vergnaud 1987; Cohn 1989; Zec & Inkelas 1990; Kang 1992; Booij & Lieber 1993; Raffelsiefen 1993). More specifically, the proposal is that semantic analysability, focus and ω status coincide in a predictable manner on prefixes.

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Phonology , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , August 1993, pp. 309 - 324
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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