Tone and Intonation are two types of pitch variation, which are used by speakers of all
languages in order to give shape to utterances. More specifically, tone encodes segments …

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 …

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 …

Este libro proporciona un estudio de la entonación y la estructura prosódica de última
generación. Desde un punto de vista fonológico, muestra cómo los constituyentes morfo …

The topic of the syntax-phonology interface is broad, encompassing different submodules of
grammar and interactions of these. This chapter addresses one fundamental aspect of the …

This book illustrates an approach to prosodic typology through descriptions of the intonation
and the prosodic structure of thirteen typologically different languages based on the same …

The analysis of the left periphery was one of the first topics of the research program referred
to as “the cartography of syntactic structures.” This program is based on the observation that …

In this volume Silvio Cruschina uses a comparative analysis to determine the syntax of the
functional projections associated with discourse-related features, and to account for the …

Intonational meaning is located in two components of language, the phonetic
implementation and the intonational grammar. The phonetic implementation is widely used …

The results of a production experiment show that English speakers distinguish elements
under contrastive focus from elements that are merely new in the discourse. A novel …