# PROSODY – AN INTERVIEW WITH MARINA NESPOR **Opening (not a real abstract):** REVEL – When was Prosody included in the “Linguistics agenda”? Who were the first researchers to study Prosody? Why were they interested in it? NESPOR – The first researcher interested in prosody in the generative tradition of grammar was Lisa Selkirk who wrote her PhD thesis (1972), entitled The phrase phonology of English and French, among other topics on liaison in French. But first a question of clarification: What do we mean by prosody? While the term prosody is generally meant to refer to rhythm and intonation, within phonological theory, it is meant to include all phonological phenomena that account for the regular sound shape of utterances, i.e. not only rhythm and intonation, but also segmental phenomena that may apply also across words. The interest in prosody, I believe – since it was mine soon after – was that the **Authors:** [[Marina Nespor]]