Tones and Tunes - Volume 2: Experimental Studies in Word and Sentence Prosody

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.

About the author

Carlos Gussenhoven, Radbout University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Tomas Riad, Stockholm University, Sweden.

Product details

• Assisted by: Carlo Gussenhoven (Editor), Carlos Gussenhoven (Editor), Riad (Editor), Riad (Editor), Tomas Riad (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.04.2008
• EAN: 9783110190588
• ISBN: 978-3-11-019058-8
• No. of pages: 429
• Dimensions: 167 mm x 26 mm x 236 mm
• Weight: 740 g
• Set: Tones and Tunes
• Series: Phonology and Phonetics; Phonology and Phonetics; Phonology and Phonetics [PP]; ISSN; ISSN; Tones and Tunes
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics