Books

German Phonology: An Optimality Theoretic Approach. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, to appear.
The book gives an account of all domains of the phonology of German in an OT framework. It is written for advanced students and researchers in linguistics.
Intonation and Prosodic Structure. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2017.
This book provides a state-of-the-art survey of intonation and prosodic structure, including the mapping from syntactic to prosodic structure, the tonal analysis, language differences in this domain and the parsing of prosody. It will be of interest to advanced students and to researchers in linguistics, and particularly in phonological theory. (Download pre-publication version here.)
The Oxford Handbook of Information Structure. Ed. with Shinichiro Ishihara. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2016.
This handbook examines information structure from a variety of perspectives across multiple subfields and disciplines. It provides case studies of information structure in a wide range of languages. It introduces the most recent developments in experimental approaches to the topic. The handbook includes both theory-oriented and topic-oriented sections.
Information structure: theoretical, typological, and experimental perspectives. Ed. with Malte Zimmermann. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010.
This book brings together leading figures of the field to present an overview of different approaches to information structure. The contributions in Part I center around the grammar of Topic and Focus, those in Part II address related cross-linguistic variation and diachronic change, and those in Part III discuss related experimental and psycholinguistic approaches.
Variation and Gradience in Phonetics and Phonology. Ed. with Frank Kügler and Ruben van de Vijver. De Gruyter, Berlin, 2009.
This book provides an overview of current issues in variation and gradience in phonetics, phonology and sociolinguistics. It combines research on the factors underlying variability and systematic quantitative results with theoretical phonological considerations.
Gradience in Grammar: Generative Perspectives. Ed. with Gisbert Fanselow, Matthias Schlesewsky and Ralf Vogel. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005.
This book represents the state of the art in the study of gradience in grammar. Part I clarifies the nature of gradience from the perspectives of phonology, generative syntax, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics. Parts II and III examine issues in phonology and syntax. Part IV considers long wh-movement from different methodological perspectives.
The Syllable in Optimality Theory. Ed. with Ruben van de Vijver. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003.
This book combines two themes of central importance to phonology – syllable structure and optimality theory – and their mutual relevance in research. Optimality theory overcomes problems of other theories in the analysis of syllable structure and syllable structure sheds light on certain properties of optimality theory itself. The analyses are based on a wealth of languages.
Audiatur Vox Sapientiae. Festschrift for Arnim von Stechow. Ed. with Wolfgang Sternefeld. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin, 2001. Reprinted by De Gruyter, Berlin, in 2015.
This book combines two themes of central importance to phonology – syllable structure and optimality theory – and their mutual relevance in research. Optimality theory overcomes problems of other theories in the analysis of syllable structure and syllable structure sheds light on certain properties of optimality theory itself. The analyses are based on a wealth of languages.
German intonational patterns. Niemeyer, Tübingen, 1993. Reprinted by De Gruyter, Berlin, in 2010.
This book explores phenomena of German intonational phonology in the autosegmental-metrical analysis of intonation. The chapters are: 1. Focus and the formation of Focus Domains, 2. The tone-sequence analysis of intonation and the tonal correlates of phrasing, 3. Nuclear tones, 4. Prenuclear tones, 5. Range, downstep, declination.