This paper reviews evidence from recent research on Japanese sentence prosody, in
particular Kawahara and Shinya (2008) on coordinated clauses and Kubo (1989) et seq …

Phonetics is the area of linguistics that studies the production and perception of speech
sounds. Research in the past decades has clearly shown that speech is extremely variable …

This second edition presents a completely revised overview of research on intonational
phonology since the 1970s, including new material on research developments since the mid …

Tone and Intonation are two types of pitch variation, which are used by speakers of all
languages in order to give shape to utterances. More specifically, tone encodes segments …

Intonational meaning is located in two components of language, the phonetic
implementation and the intonational grammar. The phonetic implementation is widely used …

This paper describes some of the more salient intonational phenomena of Spanish, and
reviews several of the most pressing questions that remain to be addressed before a …

'Uptalk'is commonly used to refer to rising intonation at the end of declarative sentences, or
(to put it more simply) the tendency for people to make statements that sound like questions …

English, Dutch, and German are often claimed to have very similar prosody and intonation,
an observation that might be related to the fact that they all belong to the West Germanic …

The present study investigates how focus is phonetically realized in declarative sentences in
American English. The goal is to test the hypotheses that,(a) focus is manifested in parallel …

The understanding of speech melody, ie, pitch variations related to tone and intonation, can
be improved by simultaneously taking into consideration two basic facts: that speech …