Department of Linguistics

• Current and Recent Grants
• Center for the Study of African American Language (CSAAL)
• Language Acquisition Lab
• Prosody Lab
• Psycholinguistics Lab
• OT Lab
• Phonetics & Phonology Lab

• Recursion
• SDRP

• Dissertations
• UMass Linguistics Archive
• GLSA publications

• Acquisition Group
• Phonetics Group
• Phonology Group
• Prosody Group
• Semantics Group
• Syntax Group

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• Endangered languages

The Prosody Group includes students and faculty and visitors from Linguistics, Psychology and Communication Disorders who are interested in prosody. It has served primarily as an arena for people to present their current research, for invited speakers to make presentations, and to a lesser extent for the reading of papers of common interest, and meets with varying regularity. A broad range of topics has been addressed, including constraints on the syntax-prosody interface, the role of prosody in language processing, the perception of intonational prominence, variation in phrasing patterns, the characterization of phonetic downtrends, the nature of the Focus-phonology interface and the universality of prosodic structure. The languages recently discussed in most depth are English and Japanese. Some of the fruits of the work of members of the Prosody Group are seen in Papers in Prosody , ed. by Shigeto Kawahara, UMOP 30, 2005.

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