Experimental Studies in Word and Sentence Prosody

This volume presents 14 experimental studies of lexical tone and intonation in a wide variety of languages. Six papers deal with the discriminability or the function of intonation contours and lexical tones in specific languages, as established on the basis of listener responses, as well as with brain activation patterns resulting from the perception of tonal and intonational stimuli. The remaining eight papers report on detailed phonetic findings on a variety of tonal phenomena in a number of languages, including declination in tone languages, final lowering, consonant-tone interactions and pitch target alignment.

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Carlos Gussenhoven, Radbout University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Tomas Riad, Stockholm University, Sweden.

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Tones and Tunes: Phonetic and Behavioural Studies in Word and Sentence Prosody presents 14 experimental studies of lexical tone and intonation in a wide variety of languages. Part 1, Perception and Processing, contains six papers that deal with the discriminability or the function of intonation contours and lexical tones in specific languages, as established on the basis of listener responses, as well as with brain activation patterns resulting from the perception of tonal and intonational stimuli. The eight papers in Part 2, Tones in speech production, report on detailed phonetic findings in a number of languages. For instance, traditional intonational topics like declination are investigated in tone languages, and classical tonal topics like consonant-tone interactions are investigated in a non-tonal language like English.
Like its sister volume Tones and Tunes:Typological and Comparative Studies in Word and Sentence Prosody, the volume approaches prosodic issues in tone languages and languages with intonation only in an integrative way. All papers are of high quality and are written by the world's leading experts in the area.