Phonological word

The phonological word or prosodic word (also called pword, PrWd; symbolised as ω) is a constituent in the phonological hierarchy. It is higher than the syllable and the foot but lower than intonational phrase and the phonological phrase. It is largely held to be a prosodic domain in which phonological features within the same lexeme may spread from one morph to another, from one clitic to a clitic host, or from one clitic host to a clitic.

The phonological word and grammatical word are non-isomorphic. Sometimes what counts as a word for the phonology can be either smaller or larger than what counts as a word for syntactic purposes. A clear case of this mismatch is compound words, which count as two words phonologically, but one in the syntax.

See also

• Phonetic word

References

1. Hall, Tracy Alan (1999-06-15). "The Phonological Word". In Hall, Tracy Alan; Kleinhenz, Ursula (eds.). A Review: The Phonological Word. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory. Vol. 174. John Benjamins Publishing Company. pp. 1–22. doi:10.1075/cilt.174.02hal. ISBN 978-90-272-3680-7.
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3. Zsiga, Elizabeth C. (2013). The sounds of language : an introduction to phonetics and phonology. Chichester, West Sussex, UK. ISBN 978-1-4051-9103-6. OCLC 799024997.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)