Prosody: Theory and Experiment : Studies Presented to Gösta Bruce /

The study of prosody is perhaps the area of speech research which has undergone the most noticeable development during the past ten to fifteen years. This book contains contributions by 15 internationally recognized experts (including M. Beckman, N. Campbell, C. Gussenhoven, J. Hirschberg, D. Hirst,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Horne, Merle
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2000.
Series:Text, speech, and language technology ; 14.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Tonal Elements and Their Alignment
  • 2. Bruce, Pierrehumbert, and the Elements of Intonational Phonology
  • 3. Levels of Representation and Levels of Analysis for the Description of Intonation Systems
  • 4. The Perception of Prosodic Prominence
  • 5. The Lexical Tone Contrast of Roermond Dutch in Optimality Theory
  • 6. Modeling the Articulatory Dynamics of two Levels of Stress Contrast
  • 7. Phrase-Level Phonology in Speech Production Planning: Evidence for the Role of Prosodic Structure
  • 8. The Interaction of Constraints on Prosodic Phrasing
  • 9. Prosodic Boundary Detection
  • 10. Timing in Speech: A Multi-Level Process
  • 11. A Corpus-Based Approach to the Study of Speaking Style.