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Understanding Phonology, Fourth Edition provides a clear,
accessible and broad introduction to Phonology. Introducing basic
concepts, it provides a comprehensive account of phonological
issues such as segmental contrasts; syllables and moras; quantity,
tone, intonation and stress; feature geometry; and prosodic
constituent structure. This new edition has been reorganized and
revised with key features including: A brand new eResource at
www.routledge.com/9781138961425, which contains a full answer key
for all exercises, and audio recordings of illustrative examples;
Illustrations in languages from all six continents and all major
language families, including Arabic, Mandarin, Finnish, Zulu and
Hawaiian; Over 140 exercises to test understanding, including new
exercises involving larger data sets; Revised coverage of tone,
stress and opacity in OT. Understanding Phonology is essential
reading for students coming to this topic for the first time.
This collection of recent papers in Laboratory Phonology approaches
phonological theory from several different empirical directions.
Psycholinguistic research into the perception and production of
speech has produced results that challenge current conceptions
about phonological structure. Field work studies provide fresh
insights into the structure of phonological features, and the
phonology-phonetics interface is investigated in phonetic research
involving both segments and prosody, while the role of
underspecification is put to the test in automatic speech
recognition.
This volume presents 14 experimental studies of lexical tone and
intonation in a wide variety of languages. Six papers deal with the
discriminability or the function of intonation contours and lexical
tones in specific languages, as established on the basis of
listener responses, as well as with brain activation patterns
resulting from the perception of tonal and intonational stimuli.
The remaining eight papers report on detailed phonetic findings on
a variety of tonal phenomena in a number of languages, including
declination in tone languages, final lowering, consonant-tone
interactions and pitch target alignment.
Despite the recent advances in the integration of lexical tone and
intonation in phonological theory, all too often the study of
intonation and the study of lexical tone are viewed as belonging to
different research traditions. This collection strengthens the
integrated approach by studying tone and intonation within a common
framework, and by tracing their interaction in specific prosodic
systems. Some papers deal with the structural properties of lexical
tone andintonation, while others focus on the historical
development of prosodic systems. The volume also includes a
re-evaluation of a classic paper on thetypology of tone rules, and
a survey of features signalling question intonation in African
languages.
Using examples from a wide variety of languages, this book reveals why speakers vary their pitch, what these variations mean, and how they are integrated into our grammars. All languages use modulations in pitch to form utterances. Pitch modulation encodes lexical "tone" to signal boundaries between morphemes or words, and encodes "intonation" to give words and sentences an additional meaning that isn't part of their original sense.
This collection of recent papers in Laboratory Phonology approaches
phonological theory from several different empirical directions.
Psycholinguistic research into the perception and production of
speech has produced results that challenge current conceptions
about phonological structure. Field work studies provide fresh
insights into the structure of phonological features, and the
phonology-phonetics interface is investigated in phonetic research
involving both segments and prosody, while the role of
underspecification is put to the test in automatic speech
recognition.
Understanding Phonology, Fourth Edition provides a clear,
accessible and broad introduction to Phonology. Introducing basic
concepts, it provides a comprehensive account of phonological
issues such as segmental contrasts; syllables and moras; quantity,
tone, intonation and stress; feature geometry; and prosodic
constituent structure. This new edition has been reorganized and
revised with key features including: A brand new eResource at
www.routledge.com/9781138961425, which contains a full answer key
for all exercises, and audio recordings of illustrative examples;
Illustrations in languages from all six continents and all major
language families, including Arabic, Mandarin, Finnish, Zulu and
Hawaiian; Over 140 exercises to test understanding, including new
exercises involving larger data sets; Revised coverage of tone,
stress and opacity in OT. Understanding Phonology is essential
reading for students coming to this topic for the first time.
Using examples from a wide variety of languages, this book reveals why speakers vary their pitch, what these variations mean, and how they are integrated into our grammars. All languages use modulations in pitch to form utterances. Pitch modulation encodes lexical "tone" to signal boundaries between morphemes or words, and encodes "intonation" to give words and sentences an additional meaning that isn't part of their original sense.
This handbook presents detailed accounts of current research in all
aspects of language prosody, written by leading experts from
different disciplines. The last four decades have seen major
theoretical and empirical breakthroughs in the field, many of them
informed by interdisciplinary approaches, as reflected in this
volume. Following an introductory section covering the fundamentals
of language prosody research, Parts II and III trace out the
position of prosody in linguistic structure and explore prosody in
speech perception and production. Part IV provides overviews of
prosodic systems across the world, with case studies from Africa,
Asia, Europe, Australia and the Pacific, and the Americas. The
chapters in Parts V, VI, and VII investigate prosody in
communication, in language processing, and in language acquisition,
while Part VIII examines prosody in technology and the arts. The
volume's comprehensive coverage and multidisciplinary perspectives
will make it an invaluable resource for all researchers, students,
and practitioners interested in prosody.
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