Prosodic Features and Prosodic Structure The Phonology of Suprasegmentals Oxford Linguistics

Prosodic Features and Prosodic Structure presents an overall view of the nature of prosodic features of language - accent stress rhythm tone pitch and intonation - and shows how these connect to sound systems and meaning. It is a work of great scholarship and learning expressed in way that will be accessible to all linguists from advanced undergraduates to postdoctoral researchers. The last substantial overview was published over 20 years ago. Since then the subject has been transformed by linked advances in phonological and phonetic theory and accoustic technology. This book will interest phonologists phoneticians and researchers in related applied fields such as speech pathology and speech synthesis.

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• ISBN Prosodic Features and Prosodic Structure ( The Phonology of 'Suprasegmentals' ) book English Paperback 414 pages