This paper presents a selective state of the art for the intonation of Standard and regional
varieties of Italian, drawing especially from Neapolitan Italian data. Production and …

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 …

This book illustrates an approach to prosodic typology through descriptions of the intonation
and the prosodic structure of thirteen typologically different languages based on the same …

This work is an investigation of the relation between prosodic structure, intonational structure
and (some instances of) focus realisation in European Portuguese (EP). The prosodic …

Speech prosody, the melodic and rhythmic properties of a language, plays a critical role in
our everyday communication. Researchers have identified unique patterns of prosody that …

English sentence prosody provides cues to both focus structure and speaker attitude. Taking
the phonological model of intonation developed by Pierrehumbert (1880 et seq.) as point of …

Greek prenuclear accents show a sharp rise that starts near the onset of the accented
syllable and peaks on the following unaccented syllable (if there is one). We have presented …

The results of a production experiment show that English speakers distinguish elements
under contrastive focus from elements that are merely new in the discourse. A novel …

We measured the alignment of F0 minima and maxima with segmental landmarks, in
prenuclear rising accents in Northern and Southern German. As in earlier studies of other …