Tones and Tunes: Experimental studies in word and sentence prosody

Tones and Tunes: Experimental studies in word and sentence prosody
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages : 440
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ISBN-10 : 3110190583
ISBN-13 : 9783110190588
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Download or read book Tones and Tunes: Experimental studies in word and sentence prosody written by Tomas Riad and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2007 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents 14 experimental studies of lexical tone and intonation in a wide variety of languages. Six papers deal with the discriminability or the function of intonation contours and lexical tones in specific languages, as established on the basis of listener responses, as well as with brain activation patterns resulting from the perception of tonal and intonational stimuli. The remaining eight papers report on detailed phonetic findings on a variety of tonal phenomena in a number of languages, including declination in tone languages, final lowering, consonant-tone interactions and pitch target alignment.


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