Pitch Accent and Its Interaction with Intonation
Author : Hye-Sook Lee
Publisher :
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 36,44 MB
Release : 2008
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Author : Hye-Sook Lee
Publisher :
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 36,44 MB
Release : 2008
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Author : Dwight Bolinger
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 25,68 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780804715355
This is the second and concluding volume of the author's magnum opus on intonation, the summation of over forty years of investigation and reflection. The first volume, Intonation and Its Parts: Melody in Spoken English, was published in 1986. Intonation, or speech melody, refers to the rise and fall of the pitch of the voice in speech; it has intimate ties to facial expression and bodily gesture, and conveys, underneath it all, emotions and attitudes. Most of the first volume was devoted to explaining the basic nature, variety, and untility of intonation, using, as in the present volume, hundreds of examples from everyday English speech, presented much in the manner of musical notation. The present volume looks at how intonation varies among speakers and societies in terms of age, sex and region; how it interacts with grammar; and how it has been invoked to explain certain questions of logic. The discussion of variation shows the degree to which intonation can be conventionalized and yet embody a universal core of feelings and attitudes, renewed with each generation. The remainder of the book demonstrates that no explanation of those apparently more arbitrary phenomena with which intonation interacts is adequate if it ignores that emotive undercurrent. In examining recent proposals for a defining relationship between intonation and grammar or logic, the author shows that such relationships are inferential and based on attitudinal meanings. For example, a given intonation does not mean 'factuality', but rather 'speaker confidence', from which factuality is inferred. In general, the author shows intonation operating independently in its own sphere, but as nevertheless indispensable to interpreting other more arbitrary parts of language.
Author : Paul de Lacy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 16,2 MB
Release : 2007-02-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1139462059
Phonology - the study of how the sounds of speech are represented in our minds - is one of the core areas of linguistic theory, and is central to the study of human language. This handbook brings together the world's leading experts in phonology to present the most comprehensive and detailed overview of the field. Focusing on research and the most influential theories, the authors discuss each of the central issues in phonological theory, explore a variety of empirical phenomena, and show how phonology interacts with other aspects of language such as syntax, morphology, phonetics, and language acquisition. Providing a one-stop guide to every aspect of this important field, The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology will serve as an invaluable source of readings for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, an informative overview for linguists and a useful starting point for anyone beginning phonological research.
Author : John M. Levis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 31,85 MB
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1108416624
An intelligibility-based approach to teaching that presents pronunciation as critical, yet neglected, in communicative language teaching.
Author : Hatice Zora
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 27,58 MB
Release : 2023-09-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 2832533019
Author : Daniel Büring
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 44,8 MB
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1134702078
This study provides an illuminating and ground-breaking account of the complex interaction of intonational phenomena, semantics and pragmatics. Based on examples from German and English, and centred on an analysis of the fall-rise intonation contour, a semantic interpretation for two different pitch accents - Focus and Topic - is developed. The cross-sentence, as well as the sentence internal semantic effects of these accents, follow from the given treatment. The account is based on Montogovian possible world semantics and Chomskian generative syntax.
Author : Caroline Féry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 16,68 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107008069
This book provides a state-of-the-art survey of intonation and prosody from a phonological perspective, for advanced students and researchers in phonology.
Author : Laurence Labrune
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 38,29 MB
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0199545839
This account of the phonology of Japanese and its major dialects presents original analyses of every aspect of the Japanese sound system, including its segment inventory, prosodic units, mora and syllable, prosody, and accent.
Author : Carlos Gussenhoven
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 957 pages
File Size : 44,44 MB
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0198832230
This handbook presents detailed accounts of current research in all aspects of language prosody, written by leading experts from different disciplines. The volume's comprehensive coverage and multidisciplinary approach will make it an invaluable resource for all researchers, students, and practitioners interested in prosody.
Author : Anne Wichmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 46,60 MB
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1317892348
It is clear that a printed text provides the reader with more information than the words alone. This includes punctuation marks, capitalisation, paragraphs, headings and sub-headings, all of which help the reader to understand how the words are organised into sentences, and sentences are organised into a coherent text. In a spoken text, this typographical information is necessarily absent. So how do readers and speakers provide equivalent information to the listener? Intonation in Text and Discourse describes the way in which speech melody, or intonation, is used to signal the structure of spoken texts. It examines the role of intonation in clarifying the relationship between successive utterances, from close cohesive ties ('middles') to major breaks for a new topic ('ends' and 'beginnings'). The book is concerned chiefly with the intonational structuring of read or prepared monologue, but also devotes a chapter to current developments in the analysis of intonation in conversation. It describes not only how intonation is used to organise systematic turn-taking but also how it can signal greater or lesser degrees of co-operativeness. It addresses finally the complex issue of attitudinal intonation - the elusive 'tone of voice'. The first book on discourse intonation to deal with such a wide variety of naturally-occurring spoken data, Intonation in Text and Discourse will be of great interest to students, lecturers and researchers of intonation and all aspects of spoken discourse.