This is the 30th volume of University of Massachusetts Occasational Papers in Linguistics, which contains papers by UMass graduate students, alumni and faculty that deal with issues related to prosody.

Contents:

Ellipsis and the prosody of contrastive Focus Katy Carlson

Focus and VP Ellipsis Lyn Frazier, Charles Clifton, Jr., and Katy Carlson

Constraints on prosodic structure and parser: Scrambled and unscrambled sentence in Japanese Masako Hirotani

The intonation of gapping and coordination in Japanese: Evidence for Intonational Phrase Shigeto Kawahara and Takahito Shinya

Lexicalized intonational meaning Christopher Potts

Comments on Intonational Phrasing in English Elisabeth Selkirk

The intonational asymmetry between argument and adjunct in Japanese Takahito Shinya

On the WH-question intonational domain in Fukuoka Japanese Jennifer Smith

Post-FOCUS Prosodic Phrase boundaries in Tokyo Japanese: Asymmetric behavior of an F0 Cue and domain-final lengthening Mariko Sugahara

Degree of initial lowering in Japanese as a reflex of prosodic organization Elisabeth Selkirk, Takahito Shinya, and Mariko Sugahara

Phonological and phonetic Effects of Minor Phrase length on F0 in Japanese Elisabeth Selkirk, Takahito Shinya, and Shigeto Kawahara

Rhythmic boost and recursive Minor Phrase in Japanese Takahito Shinya, Elisabeth Selkirk, and Shigeto Kawahara