Prosodic Categories: Production, Perception and Comprehension

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Frota, Sónia (Editor), Elordieta, Gorka (Editor), Prieto, Pilar (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory,
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Phonology.; Psycholinguistics.; Language and education.; Language Education.

Located at the intersection of phonology, psycholinguistics and phonetics, this volume offers the latest research findings in key areas of prosodic theory, including: •The relationship between intonation and pragmatics in speech production •Sentence modality prosody characterization •The role of pit...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• 1. Phonological trochaic grouping in language planning and language change
• 2. Order effects in production and comprehension of prosodic boundaries
• 3. Semantically-independent but contextually-dependent interpretation of contrastive accent
• 4. The developmental path of phonological focus-marking in Dutch
• 5.A phonetic study of intonation and focus in Nłeʔkepmxcin (Thompson River Salish)
• 6.The alignment of accentual peaks in the expression of focus in Korean
• 7. The perception of negative bias in Bari Italian questions
• 8. From Tones to Tunes: Effects of the  f0  prenuclear region in the perception of Neapolitan statements and questions
• 9. The role of pitch cue in the perception of the Estonian long quantity
• 10. All Depressors are not alike: A comparison of Shanghai Chinese and Zulu
• 11. Tonal and Non-Tonal Intonation in Shekgalagari.