Prosody conveys information about the linguistic context of an utterance at every level of
linguistic organisation, from the word up to the discourse context. Acoustic correlates of …

Much research on the acquisition of phonological skills in a second/foreign language has
hitherto been concerned with the phonemes of the target language, thereby disregarding …

This second edition presents a completely revised overview of research on intonational
phonology since the 1970s, including new material on research developments since the mid …

This volume provides a guide to what we know about the interplay between prosody-stress,
phrasing, and melody-and interpretation-felicity in discourse, inferences, and emphasis …

How do hearers manage to understand speakers? And how do speakers manage to shape
hearers' understanding? Lepore and Stone show that standard views about the workings of …

Speakers employ acoustic cues (pitch accents) to indicate that a word is important, but may
also use visual cues (beat gestures, head nods, eyebrow movements) for this purpose. Even …

Child‐directed language can support language learning, but how? We addressed two
questions:(1) how caregivers prosodically modulated their speech as a function of word …

This article demonstrates that the most common prosodic realization of focus can be
subsumed typologically under the notion of alignment: a focused constituent is preferably …

This paper presents a first attempt to outline a cross-linguistic theory of focus realization, that
is, of how different languages express focussing. My point of departure is what I will call the …

This article introduces a new way to explain how information structure is signaled
prosodically in English. I claim that METRICAL STRUCTURE plays a central role (Ladd …