Abstract
This paper revisits the colon, a prosodic constituent that has received marginal attention mainly in the stress literature (cf. Hammond 1987 and Green 1997). I argue that the colon may prove relevant also elsewhere in phonology, such as tone and prosodic templates. Data from Matumbi and Japanese, among others, exemplify. Moreover, a detailed case study of the less discussed Iquito (Michael 2011), illustrates the significance of the colon in its stress assignment. A formal analysis couched in Harmonic Serialism (McCarthy 2008a, 2008b, 2010) follows. Possible alternatives and objections to the colon are considered, arguing that its employment is often advantageous over other options and comes at the minimal cost of integrating it into language-specific prosodic hierarchies (Hyman 2011; Schiering, Bickel & Hildebrandt 2010).
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