Full Description
This volume contains detailed surveys of the intonational phonology of fourteen typologically diverse languages, described in the Autosegmental-Metrical framework. Unlike the first volume, half of the languages, which vary in their word prosody as well as their geographic distribution, are understudied languages or researched through fieldwork. All chapters provide the prosodic structure and intonational categories of the language as well as a description of focus prosody. The book concludes with a chapter on the methodology of studying intonation from data collection to analysis and a chapter which proposes a new way of characterizing the intonation of the world's languages. The sound files which accompany the descriptions are available on the book's companion website.
Contents
1. Introduction ; 2. The Intonational Phonology of European Portuguese ; 3. The Intonational Phonology of Catalan ; 4. The Intonational Phonology of Bangladeshi Standard Bengali ; 5. The Intonational Phonology of Tamil ; 6. An Autosegmental-Metrical Analysis of Georgian Intonation ; 7. The Intonational Phonology of Mongolian ; 8. Prosodic Structure and Focus Realization in West Greenlandic ; 9. Intonation and Prosody in Dalabon ; 10. Aspects of the Intonational Phonology of Jamaican Creole ; 11. The marked accentuation pattern of Curacao Papiamentu ; 12. Complex Intonation Near the Tonal isogloss in the Netherlands ; 13. The Intonation of Lebanese and Egyptian Arabic ; 14. Intonation in Basque ; 15. Typology of Intonational Phrasing in Japanese Dialects ; 16. Methodology of Studying Intonation: From Data Collection to Data Analysis ; 17. Prosodic Typology: By Prominence Type, Word prosody, and Macro-rhythm
