Prosodic Typology: The Phonology of Intonation and PhrasingIncludes CD - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199208743 ISBN 13: 9780199208746

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2007

Synopsis

This book illustrates an approach to prosodic typology through the intonational phonology of thirteen typologically different languages and the transcription system of prosody known as Tones and Break Indices (ToBI). This is the first book introducing the history and principles of this system, and it covers European languages, Asian languages, an Australian aboriginal language, and an American Indian language. A companion website hosts dozens of sound files to accompany the text.

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About the Author

Sun-Ah Jun is an Associate Professor at the Department of Linguistics, UCLA, where she teaches phonetics, intonation, and phonology. She has been teaching at UCLA since she obtained her Ph.D from Ohio State University in 1993. She has also taught at the 2001 LSA Summer Institute, Santa Barbara, California. Her research focuses on Intonational Phonology, Laboratory Phonology, Phonology-Syntax interface, and the role of prosody in semantics, language acquisition, and sentence processing. She has published a book, The Phonetics and Phonology of Korean Prosody: Intonational Phonology and Prosodic Structure (Garland Publishing, Inc.).

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199208743
• ISBN 13: 9780199208746
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480
• Editor: Jun Sun-Ah