Intonational Phonology

Informationen zum Autor D. Robert Ladd is Professor of Linguistics in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. He has published extensively on various aspects of intonation in the field's leading journals, including Language, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, and Journal of Phonetics. Klappentext Second edition of this overview of research on intonational phonology, which includes new material on research developments since the mid 1990s. Zusammenfassung This second edition presents a completely revised overview of research on intonational phonology since the 1970s! including new material on research developments since the mid 1990s. In addition there is an associated website with sound files of the example sentences discussed in the book. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Preliminaries: 1. Introduction to intonational phonology; 2. Fundamental concepts of the autosegmental-metrical theory; Part II. Pitch: 3. Analysis and transcription of intonation; 4. Issues in AM pitch phonology; 5. Intonational phonetics: alignment and scaling of tonal targets; Part III. Phrasing and Prominence: 6. Patterns of sentence stress; 7. Phonological issues in sentence stress; 8. Prosodic structure.

Product details

• Authors: D Robert Ladd, D. Robert Ladd, D. Robert (University of Edinburgh) Ladd
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.12.2008
• EAN: 9780521678360
• ISBN: 978-0-521-67836-0
• No. of pages: 370
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics; Cambridge Studies in Linguistics; Cambridge Studies in Linguisti
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies