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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779728403321

Titolo

Understanding prosody [[electronic resource] ] : the role of context, function and communication / / edited by Oliver Niebuhr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston, : De Gruyter, 2012

ISBN

3-11-030146-6

3-11-030147-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (344 p.)

Collana

Language, Context and Cognition ; ; 13

Language, context, and cognition, , 1866-8313 ; ; v. 13

Classificazione

EC 3080

Altri autori (Persone)

NiebuhrOliver

Disciplina

414

Soggetti

Prosodic analysis (Linguistics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Intrinsic coherence of prosodic and segmental aspects of speech / Xu, Yi / Liu, Fang -- Danish stød - Towards simpler structural principles? / Grønnum, Nina / Basbøll, Hans -- Prosodic allomorphs in the Estonian declension system / Lehiste, Ilse -- The application of the Fujisaki model in quantitative prosody research / Mixdorff, Hansjörg -- Rhythm classes and speech perception / Arvaniti, Amalia -- On the nature of perceptual differences between accentual peaks and plateaux / Barnes, Jonathan / Brugos, Alejna / Shattuck-Hufnagel, Stefanie / Veilleux, Nanette -- Regional varieties of Swedish: Models and synthesis / Schötz, Susanne / Bruce, Gösta / Beskow, Jonas / Gustafson, Joakim / Granström, Björn / Segerup, My -- Revisiting Southern and Central Swedish intonation from a comparative and functional perspective / Ambrazaitis, Gilbert / Frid, Johan / Bruce, Gösta -- Late pitch accents in hat and dip intonation patterns / Niebuhr, Oliver / Zellers, Margaret K. -- Perceptual evidence for contrast enhancement in tone-intonation interaction / Werth, Alexander -- Prosodies in conversation / Ogden, Richard -- Meter specific timing and prominence in German poetry and prose / Wagner, Petra -- Perceptual isochrony and fluency in speech by normal talkers under varying task demands / Dilley, Laura C. / Wallace, Jessica / Heffner, Christopher C. -- Fine phonetic detail in prosody. Cross-language differences need not inhibit communication /



Andreeva, Bistra / Barry, William J. -- Now for something completely different: Anticipatory effects of intonation / Braun, Bettina / Chen, Aoju -- Short portraits of the authors -- Author index -- Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

The volume represents a state-of-the-art snapshot of the research on prosody for phoneticians, linguists and speech technologists. It covers well-known models and languages. How are prosodies linked to speech sounds? What are the relations between prosody and grammar? What does speech perception tell us about prosody, particularly about the constituting elements of intonation and rhythm? The papers of the volume address questions like these with a special focus on how the notion of context-based coding, the knowledge of prosodic functions and the communicative embedding of prosodic elemen