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1 online resource (351 pages) |
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Studies in Language and Linguistics |
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Studies in language and linguistics.
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Author's acknowledgements; Publisher's acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One: Analysing spoken discourse; 1.1 A historical perspective; 1.2 Prosodic resources; 1.2.1 Intonation; 1.2.2 Models of intonation; 1.2.2.1 Pitch; 1.2.2.2 Phrasing; 1.2.2.3 Phonetic realisation of phonological categories; 1.2.3 Instrumental and auditory analysis; 1.3 Modelling spoken discourse; 1.3.1 Models of text and discourse structure; 1.3.1.1 Propositional Models; 1.3.1.2 Cognitive Models; 1.3.1.3 Formal Models |
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1.3.2 Modelling conversational interaction1.4 Speaking styles; 1.4.1 Reading; 1.4.2 Unscripted speech; 1.4.3 Other speaking styles; 1.4.4 Conclusion; 1.5 Summary; Chapter Two: Beginnings; 2.1 Paragraph intonation in oral reading: 4 case studies; 2.1.1 Case 1: A news summary; 2.1.2 Case 2: A news report; 2.1.3 Case 3: A short story; 2.1.3.1 Topics or paragraphs?; 2.1.3.2 Spoken vs. written paragraphs; 2.1.4 Case 4: Children's oral reading; 2.2 Titles, headlines and openers: the 'citation contour' as a topic marker; 2.2.1 Topic marking in read speech; 2.2.2 Topic marking in spontaneous speech |
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2.3 Phonetic issues surrounding initiality2.3.1 How high is high?; 2.3.1.1 Relative Pitch Height; 2.3.1.2 Individual Pitch Preferences; 2.3.2 The role of timing; 2.3.2.1 Segmental and prosodic factors affecting peak timing; 2.3.2.2 The effect of discourse on peak timing; 2.3.2.3 Theoretical implications: association vs. alignment; 2.4 Summary; Chapter Three: Ends; 3.1 Coming to the end: evidence from the SEC; 3.1.1 Falling tones; 3.1.2 Early closure; 3.1.2.1 Utterance-final rises; 3.1.2.2 Utterance-internal falls; 3.2 What kind of falling tones are there?; 3.2.1 High and low falls |
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3.2.2 Tails and endpoints3.2.3 Finality and discourse structure; 3.2.4 High and low falls in the SEC; 3.2.4.1 Inconsistencies: evidence for the role of the speaker's range; 3.3 'Cadences': melodic closure; 3.3.1 Common cadences; 3.3.2 Stylistic variation; 3.3.2.1 The Journalistic 'flourish'; 3.3.2.2 The Liturgical 'drop'; 3.4 Perception of falls -- experimental evidence; 3.5 Summary; Chapter Four: Cohesion; 4.1 Cohesion and intonation; 4.1.1 Intonation and information structure: accenting and de-accenting; 4.1.2 Cohesion and 'onset depression'; 4.2 Cohesion in the SEC |
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4.2.1 Phrase and clause boundaries: pitch depression inside sentences4.2.1.1 Non-restrictive postmodification; 4.2.1.2 Co-ordination; 4.2.2 Undoing early closure; 4.2.3 Cohesive links between sentences; 4.2.4 Conclusion; 4.3 Intonational parallelism; 4.3.1 Some common parallelisms; 4.3.2 Models of tonal parallelism; 4.3.3 Reconciling models with corpus data; 4.3.3.1 Parallelism between different tones; 4.3.3.2 Parallelism between non-adjacent tone groups; 4.3.4 Conclusion; 4.4 Parenthesis -- a reassessment; 4.4.1 The intonation of parenthesis; 4.4.2 Defining parenthesis; 4.5 Summary |
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Chapter Five: Paragraph intonation -- local and global pitch range in discourse |
| Summary |
It is clear that a printed text provides the reader with more information than the words alone. This includes punctuation marks, capitalisation, paragraphs, headings and sub-headings, all of which help the reader to understand how the words are organised into sentences, and sentences are organised into a coherent text. In a spoken text, this typographical information is necessarily absent. So how do readers and speakers provide equivalent information to the listener?Intonation in Text and Discourse describes the way in which speech melody, or intonation, is used to signal the s |
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Print version record |
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Discourse analysis
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Intonation (Phonetics)
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General.
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Discourse analysis
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Intonation (Phonetics)
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317892342 |
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1317892348 |
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