Pronunciation is one of the core areas of linguistics, language teaching and applied linguistics. It is a salient aspect of spoken language and is of widespread interest to researchers because of the window it provides on questions involving spoken language, and to teachers because of its relevance to the immediate concerns of classroom instruction. This new four volume collection will gather the key historical articles and contemporary research in pronunciation to provide a one stop research resource for student and scholar.
VOLUME I: L1 Pronunciation: Descriptions, Variation and Change, Preface,
Introduction: descriptions, variation and change1 Intonation and grammar 2
Prosodic structure and the given/new distinction 3 Falls and rises: meanings
and universals 4 Stress-timing and syllable-timing reanalyzed 5 Durational
variability in speech and the rhythm class hypothesis 6 Factors affecting
stress placement for English nonwords include syllabic structure, lexical
class, and stress patterns of phonologically similar words 7 Linking as a
marker of fluent speech8 Massive reduction in conversational American English
9 Cross-language comparison of intonation 10 What are linguistic sounds made
of? 11 Development of timing patterns in first and second languages 12
Perception of predictable stress: a cross-linguistic investigation 13 The
meaning of intonational contours in the interpretation of discourse 14
General characteristics of intonation 15 Sound patterns in language 16 The
intonation of Please-requests: a corpus-based study 17 Prosody in
conversational questions 18 Language-independent prosodic features.
