Prosodic Words
Author : Sharon Andrea Peperkamp
Publisher :
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,24 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN :
The Development of Prosody in First Language Acquisition
Author : Pilar Prieto
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,82 MB
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902726421X
Book Description
Prosodic development is increasingly recognized as a fundamental stepping stone in first language acquisition. Prosodic sensitivity starts developing very early, with newborns becoming attuned to the prosodic properties of the ambient language, and it continues to develop during childhood until early adolescence. In the last decades, a flourishing literature has reported on the varied set of prosodic skills that children acquire and how they interact with other linguistic and cognitive skills. This book compiles a set of seventeen short review chapters from distinguished experts that have contributed significantly to our knowledge about how prosody develops in first language acquisition. The ultimate aim of the book is to offer a complete state of the art on prosodic development that allows the reader to grasp the literature from an interdisciplinary and critical perspective. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students of psychology, linguistics, cognitive science, speech therapy, and education.
The Development of Prosodic Structure in Early Words
Author : Mitsuhiko Ota
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 25,64 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027252937
Book Description
This monograph addresses three basic questions regarding the development of word-internal prosodic structure: How much of the phonological structure of early words is regulated by the same constituents and principles that govern the organization of prosodic structure of mature grammar? Why do early words diverge from the adult targets in shape and size? And what is the best way to model developmental changes that occur in prosodic structure? Answers to these questions are explored through the longitudinal analysis of spontaneous production data from child Japanese. The analysis provides new types of evidence and new arguments that the prosodic phonology of young children is largely continuous with that of adults, and that the surface child-adult divergence in word forms and the overall pattern of developmental changes are best explained in terms of ranked violable constraints on the representation of prosodic structure, whose ordering is modified in the course of acquisition.
Intonation and Prosodic Structure
Author : Caroline Féry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 37,13 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107008069
Book Description
This book provides a state-of-the-art survey of intonation and prosody from a phonological perspective, for advanced students and researchers in phonology.
The Prosodic Word in European Portuguese
Author : Marina Vigário
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 22,32 MB
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110900920
Book Description
The book investigates the diagnostics for the prosodic word in European Portuguese, the prosodic organization of various sorts of morphosyntactic objects, and the definition of the prosodic word domain. The book bears on the organization of grammar and phonology, its interface with morphology and syntax, and the nature of phonological representations. Besides focusing primarily on European Portuguese, it also refers to languages such as Italian, Dutch, German, and English, among many others.
Prosodic Patterns in English Conversation
Author : Nigel G. Ward
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,7 MB
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781316633618
Book Description
Language is more than words: it includes the prosodic features and patterns that we use, subconsciously, to frame meanings and achieve our goals in our interaction with others. Here, Nigel G. Ward explains how we do this, going beyond intonation to show how pitch, timing, intensity and voicing properties combine to form meaningful temporal configurations: prosodic constructions. Bringing together new findings and hitherto-scattered observations from phonetic and pragmatic studies, this book describes over twenty common prosodic patterns in English conversation. Using examples from real conversations, it illustrates how prosodic constructions serve essential functions such as inviting, showing approval, taking turns, organizing ideas, reaching agreement, and evoking action. Prosody helps us establish rapport and nurture relationships, but subtle differences in prosody across languages and subcultures can be damagingly misunderstood. The findings presented here will enable both native speakers of English and learners to listen more sensitively and communicate more effectively.
The Structure of Spoken Language
Author : Philippe Martin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 37,89 MB
Release : 2015-11-26
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1107036186
Book Description
An innovative and unified grammar of sentence intonation, applied to six Romance languages (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan and Romanian).
The Oxford Handbook of Language Prosody
Author : Carlos Gussenhoven
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 957 pages
File Size : 33,23 MB
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0198832230
Book Description
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.
English Prosodic Morphology
Author : Sabine Lappe
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 34,66 MB
Release : 2008-02-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1402060068
Book Description
Linguistic academics and speech therapists will find here the first modern book-length empirical study and theoretical account of English truncatory processes. On the basis of a corpus comprising some 3000 derivatives, the book provides a systematic investigation of the structural properties of six different patterns of English name truncation and word clipping. All patterns are shown to be unique in terms of the structural requirements that they impose on their outputs.
Prosodic Syntax in Chinese
Author : Feng Shengli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 21,31 MB
Release : 2019-04-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1351263269
Book Description
In the two volumes of Prosodic Syntax in Chinese, the author develops a new model, which proposes that the interaction between syntax and prosody is bi-directional and that prosody not only constrains syntactic structures but also activates syntactic operations. All of the facts investigated in Chinese provide new perspectives for linguistic theories as well as insights into the nature of human languages. The subtitles of the two volumes are Theory and Facts and History and Change respectively, with each focusing on different topics (though each volume has both theoretical and historical descriptive concerns). This book has shown that prosody has played a crucial role in triggering the many changes in the diachronic development of Chinese. On the one hand, this book investigates the existence of SOV structures in Early Archaic Chinese, a SVO language, and then demonstrates the role of VO prosody in causing the disappearance of the remnant structures after the Han Dynasty. On the other hand, this book surveys the historical evidence for analyses of bei passives and Ba-constructions, and then offers a prosodic analysis on the origin of these two sentence patterns in Chinese. It is claimed that prosody can be an important factor in triggering, balancing and finally terminating changes in the syntactic evolution of Chinese.
