Prosody and Iconicity

1. Introduction (by Hancil, Sylvie); 2. Prosodic iconicity and experiential blending (by Auchlin, Antoine); 3. Emotional expressions as communicative signals (by Xu, Yi); 4. Peak alignment and surprise reading: Is there any systematic correlation in Italian (Spoken in Florence)? (by Kellert, Olga); 5. Emotional McGurk effect and gender difference - A Swedish study (by Abelin, Asa); 6. Beyond the given: An enunciative approach to the prosody of thematicity in English (by Schaefer, Steven); 7. Pragmatic functions and the biological codes: Evidence from the prosody of sentence topic and focus in Egyptian Arabic declaratives (by Zarka, Dina El); 8. Pitch accent types and the perception of focus in Majorcan Catalan wh-questions (by Mar Vanrell, Maria del); 9. UK declarative rises and the frequency code (by Hirst, Daniel); 10. Iconic interpretation of rhythm in speech (by Prsir, Tea); 11. Iconicity of melodic contours in French (by Martin, Philippe); 12. A study of postural, mimetic and gestural indicators combined with prosodic indicators: Perceptions of attitudes in French on the basis of a visually enacted oral discourse (by Gosson, Veronique); 13. Automatic detection of emotion from real-life data (by Devillers, Laurence); 14. Prosody and phonemes: On the influence of speaking style (by Schuller, Bjorn); 15. Index