Linguistic academics and speech therapists will find here the first modern book-length empirical study and theoretical account of English truncatory processes.

This handbook presents detailed accounts of current research in all aspects of language prosody, written by leading experts from different disciplines. The last

Leading linguists address various issues in the interaction of word formation and prosody.

Phonology - the study of how the sounds of speech are represented in our minds - is one of the core areas of linguistic theory, and is central to the study of h