Prosodic typology : the phonology of intonation and phrasing /

This book illustrates an approach to prosodic typology through the intonational phonology of thirteen typologically different languages and the transcription system of prosody known as Tones and Break Indices (ToBI). This is the first book introducing the history and principles of this system, and i...

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Main Author: Jun, Sun-Ah, 1959-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Series:Oxford linguistics.
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Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • List of Contributors; 1. Introduction; 2. The Original ToBI System and the Evolution of the ToBI Framework; 3. German Intonation in Autosegmental-Metrical Phonology; 4. Intonational Analysis and Prosodic Annotation of Greek Spoken Corpora; 5. Transcription of Dutch Intonation; 6. Transcribing Serbo-Croatian Intonation; 7. The J_ToBI Model of Japanese Intonation; 8. Korean Intonational Phonology and Prosodic Transcription; 9. Towards a Pan-Mandarin System for Prosodic Transcription; 10. An Autosegmental-Metrical Analysis and Prosodic Annotation Conventions for Cantonese.