Regional Variation in Intonation
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
V, 240 pages
978-3-484-30492-5 (ISBN)
Description
The intonational diversity of regional varieties provides a challenge to both traditional and autosegmental theories of intonation, which mostly derived from the study of national standard languages. The ten chapters in this book give an overview of current research covering regional varieties of English, German, Italian and Greek. While all contributions share a general autosegmental perspective, they represent different approaches and use different types of data ranging from experimental speech data to spontaneous conversational speech.
Reviews / Votes
"Insgesamt vermittelt der Sammelband nicht nur einen facettenreichen Einblick in die Erforschung regionaler Variation von Intonation, sondern damit auch auch gleichzeitig in die moderne Phonologie. Das theoretische Niveau ist anspruchsvoll und bei aller Nähe zu einem autosegmentalen Rahmen zeigt sich auch eine wohltuende Offenheit für damit weniger konforme Perspektiven."Uli Reich in: Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 6/2006More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Tübingen
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Product notice
Klappenbroschur
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
428 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-484-30492-5 (9783484304925)
Schweitzer Classification
Content
Contents: Peter Gilles/Joerg Peters, Introduction. - Esther Grabe, Intonational variation in urban dialects of English spoken in the British Isles. - Margit Aufterbeck, Identifying sociolinguistic variables in intonation: The Onset Onglide in Anstruther Scottish English. - Margret Selting, Regionalized intonation in its conversational context. - Frank Kuegler, The phonology and phonetics of nuclear rises in Swabian German. - Christiane Ulbrich, A comparative study of declarative intonation in Swiss and German standard varieties. - Karin Birkner, List intonation of German and Portuguese bilinguals in South Brazil. - Michelina Savino, Intonational cues to discourse structure in a regional variety of Italian. - Martine Grice/Michelina Savino, Information structure and questions. Evidence from task-oriented dialogues in a variety of Italian. - Dimitris Papazachariou, Intonation variables in Greek polar questions. - Beat Siebenhaar/Martin Forst/Eric Keller, Prosody of Bernese and Zurich German: What the development of a dialectal speech synthesis system tells us about it.