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Prosodic Theory and Practice
About this book
Prosody is an extremely dynamic field, with a rapid pace of theoretical development and a steady expansion of its influence beyond linguistics into such areas as cognitive psychology, neuroscience, computer science, speech technology, and even the medical profession. This book provides a set of concise and accessible introductions to each major theoretical approach to prosody, describing its structure and implementation and its central goals and assumptions as well as its strengths and weaknesses. Most surveys of basic questions in prosody are written from the perspective of a single theoretical framework. This volume offers the only summary of the full range of current theoretical approaches, with practical applications of each theory and critical commentary on selected chapters.
The current abundance of theoretical approaches has sometimes led to apparent conflicts that may stem more from terminological differences, or from differing notions of what theories of prosody are meant to achieve, than from actual conceptual disagreement. This volume confronts this pervasive problem head on, by having each chapter address a common set of questions on phonology, meaning, phonetics, typology, psychological status, and transcription. Commentary is added as counterpoint to some chapters, with responses by the chapter authors, giving a taste of current debate in the field.
Contributors
Amalia Arvaniti, Jonathan Barnes, Mara Breen, Laura C. Dilley, Grzegorz Dogil, Martine Grice, Nina Grønnum, Daniel Hirst, Sun-Ah Jun, Jelena Krivokapi?, D. Robert Ladd, Fang Liu, Piet Mertens, Bernd Möbius, Gregor Möhler, Oliver Niebuhr, Francis Nolan, Janet Pierrehumbert, Santitham Prom-on, Antje Schweitzer, Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel, Alice Turk, Yi Xu
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction: What Are Theories of Prosody For?
- 1. The Autosegmental-Metrical Model of Intonational Phonology
- 2. Modeling Danish Intonation
- 3. A Multilevel, Multilingual Approach to the Annotation and Representation of Speech Prosody
- 4. The ToBI Transcription System: Conventions, Strengths, and Challenges
- 5. Prosody in Articulatory Phonology
- 6. The Trouble with ToBI
- 7. The Prosogram Model for Pitch Stylization and Its Applications in Intonation Transcription
- 8. The Kiel Intonation Model—KIM
- 9. The Rise and Fall of the British School of Intonation Analysis
- 10. The PaIntE Model of Intonation
- 11. The PENTA Model: Concepts, Use, and Implications
- Index