Prosody conveys information about the linguistic context of an utterance at every level of
linguistic organisation, from the word up to the discourse context. Acoustic correlates of …

Traditionally, prosodic studies have focused on the study of intonational form and the study
of intonational meaning has been relatively neglected. Similarly, the fields of semantics and …

A proper understanding of intelligibility is at the heart of effective pronunciation teaching,
and with it, successful teaching of speaking and listening. Far from being an optional'add-it …

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 …

Basic Elements of Narrative outlines a way of thinking about what narrative is and how to
identify its basic elements across various media, introducing key concepts developed by …

When originally published in 1986, this book was the first to survey intonation in all its
aspects, both in English and universally. In this updated edition, while the basic descriptive …

This book covers topics in formal linguistics, intonational phonology, computational
linguistics, and experimental psycholinguistics, presenting them as an integrated theory of …

Projection is widely used as a diagnostic for presupposition, but many expression types
yield projection even though they do not have standard properties of presupposition, for …

This book illustrates an approach to prosodic typology through descriptions of the intonation
and the prosodic structure of thirteen typologically different languages based on the same …