Prosody in Conversation
Subtitle: Interactional Studies (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics)
Contributors: Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen (Editor); Margret Selting (Editor)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 13, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 483
ISBN-13: 9780521024105
Subjects: Phonetics, phonology, prosody (speech); Sociolinguistics; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics; Prosodic analysis (Linguistics); Linguistics
First sentence: If prosody is understood to comprise the 'musical' attributes of speech - auditory effects such as melody, dynamics, rhythm, tempo and pause - then it is surely no exaggeration to state that a large part of this field has been left untilled by modern structural linguistics.