Prosody: Theory and Experiment
Subtitle: Studies Presented to Gösta Bruce
By: edited by Merle Horne
Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology -- 14; Text, Speech and Language Technology -- 14
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9789048155620; 9789401594134
Subjects: Linguistics; Philology; Computational linguistics
Description: 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, D.R. Ladd, M. Ostendorf, J. Pierrehumbert, E. Selkirk, S. Shattuck-Hufnagel, and J. Terken) in different areas of prosody which provide readers with the most current and comprehensive picture of the major areas of research within the field. The contributions not only provide a survey of major developments in prosody during the past 15-20 years, but also present ongoing work as well as point to areas where future research is needed. The chapters deal with a wide range of topics including the representation of tones and intonation, evidence for and constraints on prosodic phrasing, prosodic boundary detection, articulatory dynamics of stress, timing in speech, and prosodic correlates of speaking style, as well as the perception of prosodic prominence. The book offers investigators in all areas of speech communication (phonetics, phonology, speech technology) with a comprehensive and coherent presentation of contemporary prosodic research.
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Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: 1. Tonal Elements and Their Alignment; title: 2. Bruce, Pierrehumbert, and the Elements of Intonational Phonology; title: 3. Levels of Representation and Levels of Analysis for the Description of Intonation Systems; title: 4. The Perception of Prosodic Prominence; title: 5. The Lexical Tone Contrast of Roermond Dutch in Optimality Theory; title: 6. Modeling the Articulatory Dynamics of two Levels of Stress Contrast; title: 7. Phrase-Level Phonology in Speech Production Planning: Evidence for the Role of Prosodic Structure; title: 8. The Interaction of Constraints on Prosodic Phrasing; title: 9. Prosodic Boundary Detection; title: 10. Timing in Speech: A Multi-Level Process; title: 11. A Corpus-Based Approach to the Study of Speaking Style.