This second edition presents a completely revised overview of research on intonational
phonology since the 1970s, including new material on research developments since the mid …

This book provides a state-of-the-art survey of intonation and prosodic structure. Taking a
phonological perspective, it shows how morpho-syntactic constituents are mapped to …

Speech prosody, the melodic and rhythmic properties of a language, plays a critical role in
our everyday communication. Researchers have identified unique patterns of prosody that …

Phonetics interfaces with phonology in three ways. First, phonetics defines distinctive
features. Second, phonetics explains many phonological patterns. These two interfaces …

It is acknowledged that contrast plays an important role in understanding discourse and
information structure. While it is commonly assumed that contrast can be marked by …

Speech researchers often rely on human annotation of prosody to generate data to test
hypotheses and generate models. We present an overview of two prosodic annotation …

We report three experiments, based on test sentences read aloud, on the influence of
sentence position and phonological vowel length on the alignment of accent-related f0 …

The pitch accent system of Mainstream American English (MAE) is one of the most well-
studied phenomena within the Autosegmental-Metrical (AM) approach to intonation. In this …

Pitch variations are used in different languages in a variety of communicative ways, from
cueing lexical item identity to conveying meaning through phrasing and accentuation …

The languages in the world can be divided roughly into two types of wordprosodic systems.
One type, probably a minority, has tone. 1 A tone language uses different pitches or …