Suprasegmentals, Prosodies, Prosodemes: Comparison and Discussion

Some paradoxes of prosodic research and what these may suggest about speech as multimodal communication

“…Because prosodic contrasts are not inherent in single sounds/phonemes, but in longer segments, recognition of prosodic contrasts presupposes some type of normative, culturally learned knowledge of acoustic polarities, e.g., loud/quiet, high/low, etc. (Hille, 1961). To recognize prosodic contrast one must have some sense of the opposite pole.…”

A note on the genealogy of research traditions in modern phonology

“…[4] A case in point is well illustrated by Fudge (1976), in a discussion of a thoroughgoing phonemicization of Bella Coola by S. S. Newman. See also Hill (1961).…”

Carnochan, Scott & Whitley's Prosodic Analysis of French Regular Verbs

“…Second, the availability of material in a European language may even now open the Firthian phonological approach to a greater understanding and appreciation, all the more perhaps as it is an unrevised sketch from a relatively early stage in the development of the approach. The members of the Firthian or`London' School have been criticised in the past (e.g., Hill 1961), and with some justice, for not making their work more perspicuous or elaborating any statement of the criteria and techniques they employed. In the light of such an observation, it can only be a positive move to release the material on French oered here.…”