This book provides a state-of-the-art survey of intonation and prosodic structure. Taking a phonological perspective, it shows how morpho-syntactic constituents are mapped to prosodic constituents according to well-formedness conditions. Using a tone-sequence model of intonation…
Pronouncing English is a textbook for teaching English phonetics and phonology, offering an original "stress-based" approach while incorporating all the standard course topics. Drawing on current linguistic theory, it uniquely analyzes prosody first, and then discusses its effec…
by Pierrehumbert, Janet, Beckman, Mary
fromLinguistic inquiry monographs
Part of a series designed as a reference for a particular linguistic community and for linguists working on typology and syntax, the data in this text is arranged according to the natural system of classification: phonology; morphology; syntax; lexis; semantics; dialectology and…
"This book introduces all of the prosodic domains (syllable, foot, word, clitic group, phonological phrase, intonational phrase and utterance) and comments on the evidence in their favor from numerous languages. It also contains a chapter on the phonology of poetic meter, and a …
The volume introduces a system for the multilingual transcription of intonation patterns, and the chapters are organized with the same general outline to highlight the differences between languages. The emphasis is on description and comparison, rather than on theory.
