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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      January 2017
      December 2016
      ISBN:
      9781139022064
      9781107008069
      9781107400382
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139022064
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.62kg, 388 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.52kg, 388 Pages
      • Series:
      Key Topics in Phonology
      Subjects:
      Phonetics and Phonology, Language and Linguistics
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    Series:
    Key Topics in Phonology
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    Phonetics and Phonology, Language and Linguistics
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    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, it explores individual tones and how they combine, and discusses how information structure affects intonation in several ways, showing tones and melodies to be 'meaningful' in that they add a pragmatic component to what is being said. The author also shows how, despite a superficial similarity, languages differ in how their tonal patterns arise from tone concatenation. Lexical tones, stress, phrase tones, and boundary tones are assigned differently in different languages, resulting in great variation in intonational grammar, both at the lexical and sentential level. The last chapter is dedicated to experimental studies of how we process prosody. The book will be of interest to advanced students and researchers in linguistics, and particularly in phonological theory.

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    ‘This book will make a very useful resource for graduate students and researchers in other areas of linguistics wanting to understand how prosody and intonation work on a theoretical and practical level. It is becoming increasingly clear that prosody and intonation interact with all other levels of language, from phones to whole discourses, so researchers need the tools and understanding to analyse the contribution of prosody to their data. It is great to see the broad coverage of levels of prosody and languages in this book.'

    Sasha Calhoun - Senior Lecturer and Linguistics Programme Director, Victoria University of Wellington

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