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Intonation Patterns in Tyrolean German - An Autosegmental-Metrical Analysis

English · Hardback

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Intonation is increasingly becoming a central topic in understanding the phonology of spoken language. Geoffrey Barker gives a detailed account of the intonational structure of Tyrolean German, a South Bavarian dialect of German spoken in western Austria and northern Italy, using an "autosegmental-metrical" theory of intonational phonology. Based on new fieldwork data, he provides a phonetic and phonological analysis of pitch contours in Tyrolean German with the assistance of speech analysis software. He demonstrates that Tyrolean German intonation is fundamentally different from the intonation of non-southern varieties of Standard German due to its distinctive default pitch accent. This book will appeal to both intonologists and dialectologists with its illuminating depiction of the prosodic structure of this southern dialect of German. The accompanying CD enhances the reader's experience with speech samples corresponding to the appropriate figures in the book.

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The Author: Geoffrey Barker received his Ph.D. in Germanic linguistics from the University of California at Berkeley, where he is currently serving as Lecturer. His research interests and publications span the fields of intonation, prosody, phonology, phonetics, German dialectology, sociolinguistics, and historical Germanic linguistics.

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Authors Geoffrey Barker
Publisher Peter Lang
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 02.02.2005
 
EAN 9780820468372
ISBN 978-0-8204-6837-2
No. of pages 179
Dimensions 155 mm x 14 mm x 230 mm
Weight 430 g
Series Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics

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