[en] Prosodic prominence is an umbrella term encompassing various related but conceptually and functionally different phenomena such as phonological
stress, paralinguistic emphasis, lexical, syntactic,
semantic or pragmatic salience, to mention a few.
Due to the high interest prominence has received
from various disciplines, it has been studied from
multiple perspectives (functional, physical, cognitive). It also has been operationalised and annotated
across different descriptive levels (syllable, word), based on different scales (categorical, multi-level, continuous), and measured across a large variety of signal domains (acoustic, articulatory, gestural). The present paper offers an overview of the various perspectives involved and defines a preliminary roadmap for a better and more unified understanding of this multi-faceted phenomenon.
