Intonation, accent, and rhythm : studies in discourse phonology

365 Pages·1984·8.9 MB·English

by  Dafydd Gibbon and Helmut Richter

Intonation, Accent and Rhythm
Research in Text Theory
Untersuchungen zur Texttheorie
Editor
Jänos S. Petöfi, Bielefeld
Advisory Board
Irena Bellert, Montreal
Maria-Elisabeth Conte, Pavia
Teun A. van Dijk, Amsterdam
Wolfgang U. Dressler, Wien
Peter Hartmann, Konstanz
Robert Ε. Longacre, Dallas
Roland Posner, Berlin
Hannes Rieser, Bielefeld
Volume 8
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Walter de Gruyter · Berlin · New York
1984
Intonation, Accent
and Rhythm
Studies in Discourse Phonology
Edited by
Dafydd Gibbon and Helmut Richter
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Walter de Gruyter · Berlin · New York
1984
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Main entry under title:
Intonation, accent, and rhythm.
(Research in text theory = Untersuchungen zur
Texttheorie; v. 8)
Includes indexes.
1. Prosodic analysis (Linguistics) — Addresses, essays,
lectures. 2. Discourse analysis — Addresses, essays,
lectures. I. Gibbon, Dafydd. II. Richter, Helmut,
1935- . III. Series: Research in text theory; v. 8.
P224.I5 1984 414 84-3212
CIP-Kurztitelaufnahme der Deutschen Bibliothek
Intonation, accent and rhythm: studies in discourse
phonology / ed. by Dafydd Gibbon and Helmut Richter.
-Berlin; New York: de Gruyter, 1984.
(Research in text theory; Vol. 8)
ISBN 3-11-009832-6
NE: Gibbon, Dafydd [Hrsg.]; GT
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CONTENTS
The Authors and their Affiliations VII
Dafydd Gibbon and Helmut Richter
Phonology and Discourse: a Variety of Approaches 1
Janet Bing
A Discourse Domain Identified by Intonation 10
L. Boves, B. L. ten Have, W. H. Vieregge
Automatic Transcription of Intonation in Dutch 20
David Brazil
The Intonation of Sentences Read Aloud 46
Alan Cruttenden
The Relevance of Intonational Misfits 67
Anne Cutler
Stress and Accent in Language Production and Understanding . . 77
Grzegorz Dogil
Grammatical Prerequisites to the Analysis of Speech Style:
Fast/Casual Speech 91
Anthony Fox
Subordinating and Co-ordinating Intonation Structures in the Ar-
ticulation of Discourse 120
Anna Fuchs
'Deaccenting' and 'Default Accent' 134
Dafydd Gibbon
Intonation as an Adaptive Process 165
J. 't Hart
A Phonetic Approach to Intonation: from Pitch Contours to In-
tonation Patterns 193
W. Jassem, D. R. Hill, I. H. Witten
Isochrony in English Speech: its Statistical Validity and Linguistic
Relevance 203
Gerald Knowles
Variable Strategies in Intonation 226
VI Contents
Manfred Krause
Recent Developments in Speech Signal Pitch Extraction 243
D. Robert Ladd
English Compound Stress 253
Hans-Heinrich Lieb
A Method for the Semantic Study of Syntactic Accents 267
Helmut Richter
An Observation Concerning Intensity as a Predictable Feature of
Intonation 283
Mitsou Ronat
Logical Form and Prosodic Islands 311
Peter Winkler
Interrelations Between Fundamental Frequency and Other Acous-
tic Parameters of Emphatic Segments 327
Name Index 339
Subject Index 342
The Authors and their Affiliations
Janet Bing
Department of English,
Old Dominion University,
Norfolk, Virginia,
USA
L. Boves
Instituut voor Fonetiek,
Katholieke Universiteit,
Nijmegen,
Netherlands
David Brazil
Dept. of English Language
and Literature,
University of Birmingham,
England
Alan Cruttenden
Dept. of General Linguistics,
University of Manchester,
England
Anne Cutler
Medical Research Council
Applied Psychology Unit,
Cambridge,
England
Grzegorz Dogil
Fakultät für Linguistik
und Literaturwissenschaft,
Universität Bielefeld,
Federal Republic of Germany
Anthony Fox
Dept. of Linguistics
& Phonetics,
University of Leeds,
England
VIII The Authors and their Affiliations
Anna Fuchs
Seminar für Deutsche Philologie,
Universität Göttingen,
Federal Republic of Germany
Dafydd Gibbon
Fakultät für Linguistik
und Literaturwissenschaft,
Universität Bielefeld,
Federal Republic of Germany
Johan't Hart
Instituut voor Perceptie Onderzoek,
Eindhoven,
Netherlands
B. L. ten Have
Instituut voor Fonetiek,
Katholieke Universiteit,
Nijmegen,
Netherlands
D. R. Hill
Department of Acoustics,
University of Calgary,
Canada
Wiktor Jassem
Acoustic Phonetics Research Unit,
Polish Academy of Science,
Poznafi, Poland
Gerald Knowles
School of English,
University of Lancaster,
England
Manfred Krause
Technische Universität Berlin,
Federal Republic of Germany
D. Robert Ladd
Department of Experimental Psychology,
University of Sussex,
Brighton,
England
The Authors and their Affiliations
Hans-Heinrich Lieb
Fachbereich Germanistik,
Freie Universität Berlin,
Federal Republic of Germany
Helmut Richter
Fachbereich Germanistik,
Freie Universität Berlin,
Federal Republic of Germany
Mitsou Ronat
Centre National de Recherche Scientifiqi
Paris,
France
Wilhelm Η. Vieregge
Instituut voor Fonetiek,
Katholieke Universiteit,
Nijmegen,
Netherlands
Peter Winkler
Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät,
Universität Konstanz,
Federal Republic of Germany
I. H. Witten
Department of Acoustics,
University of Calgary,
Canada