In the field of neurodegeneration, speech and language assessments are useful for
diagnosing aphasic syndromes and for characterizing other disorders. As a complement to …

Research on the exploitation of prosodic information in the comprehension of spoken
language is reviewed. The research falls into three main areas: the use of prosody in the …

A proper understanding of intelligibility is at the heart of effective pronunciation teaching,
and with it, successful teaching of speaking and listening. Far from being an optional'add-it …

Since its first publication in 1962, Gimson's Pronunciation of English has been the essential
reference book for anyone studying or teaching the pronunciation of English. This eighth …

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 book provides a state-of-the-art survey of intonation and prosodic structure. Taking a
phonological perspective, it shows how morpho-syntactic constituents are mapped to …

This book, first published in 1996, argues that language use is more than the sum of a
speaker speaking and a listener listening. It is the joint action that emerges when speakers …

According to the alternative semantics for focus, the semantic reflec of intonational focus is a
second semantic value, which in the case of a sentence is a set of propositions. We examine …

In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the
standpoint of cognitive neuroscience, Aniruddh D. Patel challenges the widespread belief …

A framework for pragmatic analysis is proposed which treats discourse as a game, with
context as a scoreboard organized around the questions under discussion by the …