Fuzzy categorization and the limitations of Intonational Phonology

Prosody Revisited FUNCTION, TIME , and the LISTENER in Intonational Phonology

A new look at intonational phonology introduces FUNCTION, TIME, and the LISTENER as essential theoretical categories of prosody with reference to a wide array of language data.

A review of Wendy L. Bowcher and Bradley A. Smith (eds.), Systemic Phonology: Recent Studies in English. Sheffield: Equinox, 2014. vii + 451 pp. £85.00 (hbk), £30.00 (pbk)

Correspondence: mjmsxjj@gmail. com School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China Systemic Phonology: Recent Studies in English is an extremely timely addition to the literature of systemic functional linguistics (SFL). Despite the importance of phonology to any general description of language, the editors note that this is the first collection focusing on phonolog...

The intonational phonology of European Portuguese

A Case of OCP Effects in Intonational Phonology

Assuming a set of tone-meaning mappings for English intonational phonology such as Pierrehumbert and Hirschberg (1990), certain data contain tones that would be otherwise unexpected. That is to say, we find surface representations that seem to contradict the assumption that the choice of tone target in English intonation is meaningful. Given such data, one might assume that a theory of tone-mea...

The Intonation of Gapping and Coordination in Japanese: Evidence for Intonational Phrase and Utterance

In previous studies of Japanese intonational phonology, levels of prosodic constituents above the Major Phrase have not received much attention. This paper argues that at least two prosodic levels exist above the Major Phrase in Japanese. Through a detailed investigation of the intonation of gapping and coordination in Japanese, we argue that each syntactic clause projects its own Intonational ...