This volume contains detailed surveys of the intonational phonology of fourteen typologically diverse languages, described in the Autosegmental-Metrical framework. Unlike the first volume, half of the languages, which vary in their word prosody as well as their geographic distribution, are
understudied languages or researched through fieldwork. All chapters provide the prosodic structure and intonational categories of the language as well as a description of focus prosody.
The book concludes with a chapter on the methodology of studying intonation from data collection to
analysis and a chapter which proposes a new way of characterizing the intonation of the world's languages. The sound files which accompany the descriptions are available on the book's companion website.
1. Sun-Ah Jun: Introduction
2. Sónia Frota: The Intonational Phonology of European Portuguese
3. Pilar Prieto: The Intonational Phonology of Catalan
4. Sameer Khan: The Intonational Phonology of Bangladeshi Standard Bengali
5. Elinor Keane: Tamil Intonation
6. Chad Vicenik and
Sun-Ah Jun: An Autosegmental-Metrical Analysis of Georgian Intonation
7. Anastasia M. Karlsson: Intonation of Halh Mongolian
8. Anja Arnhold: Prosodic Structure and Focus Realization in West Greenlandic
9. Janet Fletcher: Intonation and Prosody in Dalabon
10. Shelome Goodwin: Aspects
of the Intonational Phonology of Jamaican Creole
11. Bert Lamijsen, Farienne Martis, and Ronni Severing: The Intonational System of Papiamentu (Curacao Dialect)
12. Carlos Gussenhoven: Complex Intonation Near the Tonal isogloss in the Netherlands
13. Sam Hellmuth and Dana Chahal: The
Intonation of Lebanese and Egyptian Arabic
14. Gorka Elordieta and José Hualde: Intonation in Basque
15. Yoshuke Igarashi: Typology of Intonational Phrasing in Japanese Dialects
16. Sun-Ah Jun and Janet Fletcher: Methodology of Studying Intonation: From Data Collection to Data
Analysis
17. Sun-Ah Jun: Prosodic Typology: By Prominence Type, Word prosody, and Maacro-rhythm
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Sun-Ah Jun is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She received her Ph.D. from the Ohio State University in 1993 and has been teaching at UCLA since then. She also
taught at the LSA Summer Institute in 2001 and LOT Summer school
in 2013. Her research focuses on intonational phonology, prosodic typology, and the interface between prosody and other sub-areas of grammar, especially syntax, semantics, and sentence processing. She has published the book The Phonetics and Phonology of Korean Prosody: Intonational Phonology and
Prosodic Structure (Garland Publishing, Inc., 1996) and edited the first volume of Prosodic Typology (OUP, 2005).
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