Prosody: Models and Measurements -

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Sommaire:
1. Introduction. Models and Measurements in the Study of Prosody.- 1.1 Concrete and Abstract Accounts of Prosody.- 1.2 Illustrating the Two Approaches.- 1.3 Implications of the Two Approaches.- 1.4 The Contributions.- 1.5 The Purpose of an Interdisciplinary Volume.- 2. A Generative Model of Intonation.- 2.1 The Model.- 2.2 Application to Swedish, Greek and French.- 2.3 Comparison.- 2.4 The Model Applied to Questions and Pragmatic Effects.- 3. Two Issues in the Prosody of Standard Danish.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Sentence Accent.- 3.3 The Representation of Sentence Intonation.- 4. Peak Features and Overall Slope.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 The Peak-Feature Model.- 4.3 Cross-Classification and Functional Relatedness.- 4.4 Peak Scaling and Declination.- 4.5 Summary.- 5. Language-Independent Prosodic Features.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 Language-Independent Similarities.- 5.3 Prosodic Differences Among Languages.- 5.4 Conclusion.- 6. Prosodic Structure and the Given/New Distinction.- 6.1 The Given/New Distinction.- 6.2 Extensions of the Given/New Distinction.- 6.3 An Experimental Study of Intonation and Information Structure.- 6.4 Conclusion.- 7. Speakers' Conceptions of the Function of Prosody.- 7.1 Introduction.- 7.2 The Prosody of Repair.- 7.3 The Repair of Prosody.- 7.4 Conclusion.- 8. Structures and Categories in Prosodic Representations.- 8.1 Intonation and Universal Grammar.- 8.2 Phonetic Representations of Intonation.- 8.3 Phonological Representations.- 8.4 Conclusion.- 9. Temporal Predictability in the Perception of English Speech.- 9.1 Stress and Rhythm.- 9.2 P-Centres and Rhythm.- 9.3 Rhythm and Temporal Predictability.- 9.4 Modelling Rhythmic Structure.- 9.5 Summary.- 10. Prosodic Structure Above the Word.- 10.1 Introduction.- 10.2 Construction of ProsodicCategories.- 10.3 Intonation Phenomena.- 10.4 Ambiguity and Potential for Disambiguation.- 10.5 Conclusions.- 11. Comparative Notes on Terms and Topics in the Contributions.- 11.1 Accents.- 11.2 Domains.- 11.3 Grids.- 11.4 Lines.- 11.5 Tones.- References.- Name Index.