Located at the intersection of phonology, psycholinguistics and phonetics, this volume offers the latest research findings in key areas of prosodic theory, including:
•The relationship between intonation and pragmatics in speech production
•Sentence modality prosody characterization
•The role of pitch in quantity-based sound systems
•Consonant-conditioned tone depression phonology across languages
•The encoding of intonational contrasts in both intonational and tonal languages
Featuring new data and ground-breaking results, the papers draw on empirical approaches that analyze production, perception and comprehension experiments such as the prepared speech paradigm and semantic scaling tasks. These are discussed in a variety of languages, some underrepresented in the literature (such as French and Estonian) while others, such as Shekgalagari, are examined in this way for the first time. This collection of cutting-edge material will be of interest to a broad range of language researchers.
Author(s): Sónia Frota, Gorka Elordieta, Pilar Prieto (auth.), Sónia Frota, Gorka Elordieta, Pilar Prieto (eds.)
Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 82
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 296
Tags: Phonology; Language Education; Psycholinguistics
Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction....Pages 1-15
Phonological Trochaic Grouping in Language Planning and Language Change....Pages 17-38
Order Effects in Production and Comprehension of Prosodic Boundaries....Pages 39-68
Semantically-Independent but Contextually-Dependent Interpretation of Contrastive Accent....Pages 69-92
The Developmental Path to Phonological Focus-Marking in Dutch....Pages 93-109
A Phonetic Study of Intonation and Focus in Nłeʔkepmxcin (Thompson River Salish)....Pages 111-143
The Alignment of Accentual Peaks in the Expression of Focus in Korean....Pages 145-185
The Perception of Negative Bias in Bari Italian Questions....Pages 187-206
From Tones to Tunes: Effects of the f 0 Prenuclear Region in the Perception of Neapolitan Statements and Questions....Pages 207-230
The Role of Pitch Cue in the Perception of the Estonian Long Quantity....Pages 231-242
All Depressors are Not Alike: A Comparison of Shanghai Chinese and Zulu....Pages 243-265
Tonal and Non-Tonal Intonation in Shekgalagari....Pages 267-289
Back Matter....Pages 291-296
