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Understanding Phonology, Fifth Edition, provides a clear, accessible and broad introduction to phonology. Introducing basic concepts, it provides a comprehensive account of phonological topics like segmental contrasts, syllables and moras, quantity, tone and intonation, word stress, and prosodic constituent structure.

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This handbook presents detailed accounts of current research in all aspects of language prosody, written by leading experts from different disciplines. The volume's comprehensive coverage and multidisciplinary approach will make it an invaluable resource for all researchers, students, and practitioners interested in prosody.

Understanding Phonology, 4th Edition provides a clear, accessible and broad introduction to Phonology. Introducing basic concepts, it illustrates key points from a wide variety of languages and provides a comprehensive account of phonological issues such as: segmental contrasts, syllables & moras, tone, quality, & intonation, feature geometry, word stress systems, and prosodic structure.

Understanding Phonology, 4th Edition provides a clear, accessible and broad introduction to Phonology. Introducing basic concepts, it illustrates key points from a wide variety of languages and provides a comprehensive account of phonological issues such as: segmental contrasts, syllables & moras, tone, quality, & intonation, feature geometry, word stress systems, and prosodic structure.

Using examples from a wide variety of languages, this book reveals why speakers vary their pitch, what these variations mean, and how they are integrated into our grammars. All languages use modulations in pitch to form utterances. Pitch modulation encodes lexical "tone" to signal boundaries between morphemes or words, and encodes "intonation" to give words and sentences an additional meaning that isn't part of their original sense.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Focus, mode and the nucleus -- 2. From focus to sentence accent: A rule for the assignment of sentence accents in Dutch -- 3. The intonation of'George and Mildred': Post-nuclear generalisations -- 4. Testing the reality of focus domains -- 5. Idiomaticity in sentence accent location in English and Dutch -- 6. A semantic analysis of the nuclear tones of English -- 8. Stress shift and the ...

Tone and Intonation are two types of pitch variation, which are used to give shape to utterances. More specifically, tone encodes segments and morphemes, and intonation gives utterances a further discoursal meaning that is independent of the meanings of the words themselves. In this comprehensive survey, Carlos Gussenhoven reviews recent research into tone and intonation, discussing why speakers vary their pitch, what pitch variations mean, an...

Despite the recent advances in the integration of lexical tone and intonation in phonological theory, all too often the study of intonation and the study of lexical tone are viewed as belonging to different research traditions. This collection strengthens the integrated approach by studying tone and intonation within a common framework, and by tracing their interaction in specific prosodic systems. Some papers deal with the structural properti...