15 Jun 2004

Mariko Sugahara & Alice Turk

Prosodic constituent structure below the word-level is in a lot of debate. One example of such controversial cases in English is the internal prosodic organization of words consisting of a stem and a Level II suffix: supporters of the Morphology-Phonology Edge Alignment approach argue that there is a prosodic word boundary between the stem and the following Level II suffix while lexical phonologists do not. The main goal of this study is to compare those two different views by observing durational patterns of segments dominated by words consisting of a stem and a Level II suffix at normal and slower speech rates.

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