Prosody Revisited FUNCTION, TIME , and the LISTENER in Intonational Phonology

Intonational Phonology of Seoul Korean Revisited

Intonational phonology in Bengali and English infant-directed speech

We examined the phonetics and phonology of intonation of infant-directed speech (IDS) and non-IDS in story-reading in two typologically-divergent languages, English and Bengali. In addition to finding an increase in f0 range and variability in IDS, replicating previous work on IDS prosody, we found novel evidence that f0 manipulations in IDS are constrained by intonational phonology. Speakers i...

Morphological Alternations at the Intonational Phrase Edge

This article develops an analysis of a pair of morphological alternations in K'ichee' (Mayan) that are conditioned at the right edge of intonational phrase boundaries. I propose a syntax-prosody mapping algorithm that derives intonational phrase boundaries from the surface syntax, and then argue that each alternation can be understood in terms of output optimization (Mascaró 2007; Mester 1994)....

Using Mimicry to Learn about Mental Representations

Phonology typically describes speech in terms of discrete signs like features. The field of intonational phonology uses discrete accents to describe intonation and prosody. But, are such representations useful? The results of mimicry experiments indicate that discrete signs are not a useful representation of the shape of intonation contours. Human behaviour seems to be better represented by a a...

Review of Jun ( 2014 ) Prosodic Typology II ∗ For Phonology

Prosodic Typology II gathers a set of papers detailing the intonational phonologies of 14 different languages from across the globe. As the name suggests, Prosodic Typology II is the successor to the first Prosodic Typology volume (Jun 2005b); the introductory chapter by Sun-Ah Jun describes it as an extension of the original collection. There is a great deal of continuity between this volume a...