It has already been observed that there is no one-to-one map** between intonational
categories and the pragmatic functions they are used to express. For instance, in German a …

The present study investigated the perception of phrase-level prosodic prominence in
American English, using the Rapid Prosody Transcription (RPT) task. We had two basic …

Abstract The former Apple CEO Steve Jobs was one of the most charismatic speakers of the
past decades. However, there is, as yet, no detailed quantitative profile of his way of …

Research has shown a close temporal relationship between prominence-lending tonal
movements in speech and prominence in manual gesture. However, prosodic structure …

The main aim of this book is to contribute to our understanding of the acquisition of second
language intonation, by comparing Czech learners of Spanish with German learners of …

The prosody of non-assertive speech acts other than questions is rather underexplored.
Very little is known about the role of information structure in non-assertive speech acts in …

Abstract In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird untersucht, welche akustischen Eigenschaften
Füllpartikeln wie äh und ähm in spontansprachlichen Dialogen des Deutschen zeigen und …

Human language is essentially multimodal and recent studies within the field of gesture
research have shown both the strong temporal relationship between manual co-speech …

This article is a follow-up study of Féry and Kügler (2008. Pitch accent scaling on given, new
and focused constituents in German. Journal of Phonetics, 36, 680–703). It reports on an …

This book provides an in-depth, multi-dimensional analysis of conversations between
autistic adults. The investigation is focussed on intonation style, turn-taking and the use of …