Kevin M. Ryan is Professor of Linguistics at Harvard University, where he has taught since 2011 after receiving his PhD from UCLA. His research centers on phonology, morphology, poetics, and South Asian languages, and draws on corpus-based, experimental, and typological data. A recurring focus is prosodic systems, including topics such as stress, weight, meter, and phrasal phonology. His work has appeared in journals such as Language, Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, and Phonology.

thoughts presented in this book lighten the way of this ongoing field of research in prosodic weight and will undoubtedly benefit those who are interested in phonetics and phonology greatly.

• Preface Acknowledgements List of abbreviations and symbols 1: Overview and aims 2: Complex weight for stress 3: Prosodic minimality in isolation and in context 4: Quantitative meter: Categorical and gradient weight 5: Prosodic end-weight and the stress-weight interface 6: Conclusion Appendix: Key constraints References Index

Kevin M. Ryan is Professor of Linguistics at Harvard University, where he has taught since 2011 after receiving his PhD from UCLA. His research centers on phonology, morphology, poetics, and South Asian languages, and draws on corpus-based, experimental, and typological data. A recurring focus is prosodic systems, including topics such as stress, weight, meter, and phrasal phonology. His work has appeared in journals such as Language, Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, and Phonology.

thoughts presented in this book lighten the way of this ongoing field of research in prosodic weight and will undoubtedly benefit those who are interested in phonetics and phonology greatly.

• Preface Acknowledgements List of abbreviations and symbols 1: Overview and aims 2: Complex weight for stress 3: Prosodic minimality in isolation and in context 4: Quantitative meter: Categorical and gradient weight 5: Prosodic end-weight and the stress-weight interface 6: Conclusion Appendix: Key constraints References Index

Kevin M. Ryan is Professor of Linguistics at Harvard University, where he has taught since 2011 after receiving his PhD from UCLA. His research centers on phonology, morphology, poetics, and South Asian languages, and draws on corpus-based, experimental, and typological data. A recurring focus is prosodic systems, including topics such as stress, weight, meter, and phrasal phonology. His work has appeared in journals such as Language, Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, and Phonology.

thoughts presented in this book lighten the way of this ongoing field of research in prosodic weight and will undoubtedly benefit those who are interested in phonetics and phonology greatly.

• Preface Acknowledgements List of abbreviations and symbols 1: Overview and aims 2: Complex weight for stress 3: Prosodic minimality in isolation and in context 4: Quantitative meter: Categorical and gradient weight 5: Prosodic end-weight and the stress-weight interface 6: Conclusion Appendix: Key constraints References Index