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., Jia Guo, Sihan Cui, and Siyi Jia, International Journal of Chinese Linguistics

[T]he book is a valuable contribution to the study of weight as it affects prosodic phenomena., Claire Moore-Cantwell, UCLA, Phonology
Biografía del autor
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.