Tones and Tunes: Typological studies in word and sentence prosody
Title | Tones and Tunes: Typological studies in word and sentence prosody PDF eBook |
Author | Tomas Riad |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9783110190571 |
Despite the recent advances in the integration of lexical tone and intonation in phonological theory, all too often the study of intonation and the study of lexical tone are viewed as belonging to different research traditions. This collection aims to strengthen the integrated approach by studying tone and intonation within a common framework, and by tracing their interaction in specific prosodic systems. Some papers deal with the structural properties of lexical tone and intonation, e.g. of Zina Kotoko (Cameroon), Borgloon Dutch (Belgium), and European Portuguese, while others focus on the historical development of the prosodic systems of Basque, Kagoshima Japanese and Scandinavian. The volume also includes a re-evaluation of a classic paper on the typology of tone rules, and a survey of features signalling question intonation in African languages.
Experimental Studies in Word and Sentence Prosody
Title | Experimental Studies in Word and Sentence Prosody PDF eBook |
Author | Carlos Gussenhoven |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 433 |
Release | 2009-02-26 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110207575 |
This volume presents 14 experimental studies of lexical tone and intonation in a wide variety of languages. Six papers deal with the discriminability or the function of intonation contours and lexical tones in specific languages, as established on the basis of listener responses, as well as with brain activation patterns resulting from the perception of tonal and intonational stimuli. The remaining eight papers report on detailed phonetic findings on a variety of tonal phenomena in a number of languages, including declination in tone languages, final lowering, consonant-tone interactions and pitch target alignment.
Typological Studies in Word and Sentence Prosody
Title | Typological Studies in Word and Sentence Prosody PDF eBook |
Author | Tomas Riad |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 401 |
Release | 2009-02-26 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110207567 |
Despite the recent advances in the integration of lexical tone and intonation in phonological theory, all too often the study of intonation and the study of lexical tone are viewed as belonging to different research traditions. This collection strengthens the integrated approach by studying tone and intonation within a common framework, and by tracing their interaction in specific prosodic systems. Some papers deal with the structural properties of lexical tone and intonation, while others focus on the historical development of prosodic systems. The volume also includes a re-evaluation of a classic paper on the typology of tone rules, and a survey of features signalling question intonation in African languages.
Tones and Tunes
Title | Tones and Tunes PDF eBook |
Author | Carlos Gussenhoven |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Intonation (Phonetics). |
ISBN | 9783110190588 |
Prosodic Typology II
Title | Prosodic Typology II PDF eBook |
Author | Sun-Ah Jun |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 605 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0199567301 |
This text illustrates an approach to prosodic typology through descriptions of the intonation and the prosodic structure of 13 typologically different languages based on the same theoretical framework and the transcription system of prosody known as Tones and Break Indices (ToBI).
Prosody and Prosodic Interfaces
Title | Prosody and Prosodic Interfaces PDF eBook |
Author | Haruo Kubozono |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 577 |
Release | 2022 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0198869746 |
"This volume brings together novel, original studies on prosody and prosodic interfaces. It consists of fifteen chapters, some of which look at word prosody and phrase prosody in individual languages, some examine the interactions between lexical tones and intonation, and others analyze the syntax-prosody interface. Despite much recent attention paid to prosody, there is yet a significant number of languages and dialects that remain largely undocumented or understudied. Many chapters in this volume contribute to this empirical gap in prosodic research by presenting new data, based on original fieldwork and experiments. Moreover, many chapters address important questions pertaining to the interactions between lexical and postlexical tones with in-depth investigations of both lexical prosody and postlexical phonology. Furthermore, other chapters tackle the question of how prosodic structure-either lexical or postlexical-interacts with syntactic structure, thereby contributing to our understanding of the interaction between multiple components of the grammar, embedded in a thorough understanding of current linguistic theories. The volume as a whole addresses many difficult issues and illuminates the question of how prosody is structured in language and functions in human communication"--
Intonation in African Tone Languages
Title | Intonation in African Tone Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Laura J. Downing |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 2016-11-07 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110503522 |
This volume brings together two under-investigated areas of intonation typology. While tone languages make up to 70 percent of the world’s languages, only few have been explored for intonation. And even though one third of the world’s languages are spoken in Africa, and most sub-Saharan languages are tone languages, recent collections on tone and intonation typology have almost entirely ignored African languages. This book aims to fill this gap.