Understanding Prosody: The Role of Context, Function and Communication

✍ Scribed by Oliver Niebuhr (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 344
• Series: Language, Context and Cognition; 13
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 elements can advance our understanding of prosody.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Intrinsic coherence of prosodic and segmental aspects of speech
Danish stød — Towards simpler structural principles?
Prosodic allomorphs in the Estonian declension system
The application of the Fujisaki model in quantitative prosody research
Rhythm classes and speech perception
On the nature of perceptual differences between accentual peaks and plateaux
Regional varieties of Swedish: Models and synthesis
Revisiting Southern and Central Swedish intonation from a comparative and functional perspective
Late pitch accents in hat and dip intonation patterns
Perceptual evidence for contrast enhancement in tone-intonation interaction
Prosodies in Conversation
Meter specific timing and prominence in German poetry and prose
Perceptual isochrony and fluency in speech by normal talkers under varying task demands
Fine phonetic detail in prosody. Cross-language differences need not inhibit communication
Now for something completely different: Anticipatory effects of intonation
Short portraits of the authors
Author index
Subject index