Prosodic Features and Prosodic Structure

Download or read book Prosodic Features and Prosodic Structure written by Anthony Fox and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2002 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prosodic Features and Prosodic Structure presents an overall view of the nature of prosodic features of language - accent, stress, rhythm, tone, pitch, and intonation - and shows how these connect to sound systems and meaning. This invaluable survey will appeal to linguists at all levels, in particular to phonologists, phoneticians, and researchers in related applied fields such as speech pathology and speech synthesis.