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Intonation and Prosodic Structure (Paperback)
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Intonation and Prosodic Structure (Paperback)
Series: Key Topics in Phonology
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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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