Intonation is becoming increasingly prominent in areas from phonology to speech recognition. Ladd gives an exceptionally clear overview of the key ideas of Pierrehumbert's autosegmental-metrical theory to intonational phonology, and discusses alternative approaches. He also looks critically at the version put forward by generativists, and offers his own solutions. This book will appeal to phonologists as an original contribution, and will be welcomed by students and researchers, who will find in it the ideal overview of recent work.
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"Intonational Phonology, written by one of the leading experts on linguistic intonation, provides the best overview in existence on the subject of intonation and will not be demoted from that position any time soon. Given that all languages employ intonation phenomena, this work should have broad appeal, and anyone with a serious interest in analyzing the intonation structures of a language will find it invaluable. It is not only well thought out, but also well written. Having said that, the prospective reader should bear in mind that the work is quite theoretical and definitely not bathtub reading. Nevertheless, Ladd's many years of experience bring to the volume a richness and depth that make the effort invested in reading it well worthwhile." Notes on Linguistics
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Intonation is becoming increasingly prominent in areas from phonology to speech recognition. Ladd gives an exceptionally clear overview of the key ideas of Pierrehumbert's autosegmental-metrical theory to intonational phonology, and discusses alternative approaches. He also looks critically at the version put forward by generativists, and offers his own solutions. This book will appeal to phonologists as an original contribution, and will be welcomed by students and researchers, who will find in it the ideal overview of recent work.
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A clear, well-written introduction to intonational phonology,
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This is an extremely good, well-written, introduction to intonational phonology. It clearly presents the auto-segmental metrical theory of intonational phonology developed by Janet Pierrehumbert and others. Other introductory books on intonation (Cruttenden's Intonation and Couper-Kuhlen's An introduction to English Prosody) lack sufficient coverage of this important theory. The book also presents good summaries of intonational meaning and cross-language comparisons. A great, easy-to-read book. Definitely 5-stars
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pitch range effects, calling contour, relative semantic weight, local pitch movements, sagging transition, stylised contours, most prominent accent, word accent distinction, sentence accentuation, tonal string, downstepped accent, prenuclear accents, accentual peak, intonational universals, single intermediate phrase, starred tone, lexically stressed syllable, intonational distinctions, pitch range variation, phonological organisation, pitch accent types, intonational phonology, accent peaks, tone phonemes, intermediate phrase boundary Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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One of the many difficulties of writing on the subject of intonation is that the term means different things to different people. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pitch range effects, calling contour, relative semantic weight, local pitch movements, sagging transition, stylised contours, most prominent accent, word accent distinction, sentence accentuation, tonal string, downstepped accent, prenuclear accents, accentual peak, intonational universals, single intermediate phrase, starred tone, lexically stressed syllable, intonational distinctions, pitch range variation, phonological organisation, pitch accent types, intonational phonology, accent peaks, tone phonemes, intermediate phrase boundary Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
American English, North American, Western European, Eastern European, Palermo Italian, British English, Der Arzt, Charlie Brown, European Portuguese, Glasgow English, Stockholm Swedish New!
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- A-Morphous Morphology (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics) by Stephen R. Anderson in Front Matter
- Prosodic Phonology (Studies in Generative Grammar, 28) by Marina Nespor on page 241
- Teach Yourself English (As a Foreign Language) by Sandra Stevens in Back Matter
- Social Psychology (Nelson-Hall Series in Psychology) by Stephen Worchel in Back Matter
- Speech Communication: Speech Wave Processing and Transmission v.1 (Its Speech communication ; v. 1) (Vol 1) by Gunnar Fant in Back Matter
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- Prosodic Typology: The Phonology of Intonation and Phrasing includes CD (Oxford Linguistics) by Sun-Ah Jun on 14 pages
- Prosodic Typology: The Phonology of Intonation and Phrasing includes CD by Sun-Ah Jun on 14 pages
- Intonation: Analysis, Modelling and Technology (Text, Speech and Language Technology) by A. Botinis on 8 pages
- Intonation - Analysis, Modelling and Technology (Text, Speech and Language Technology, Volume 15) by A. Botinis on 8 pages
- Methods in Empirical Prosody Research (Language, Context and Cognition 3) by Stefan Sudhoff on 4 pages
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