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By Philippe Martin

ISBN-10: 1107036186

ISBN-13: 9781107036185

utilizing an cutting edge technique, this ebook specializes in a broadly debated sector of phonetics and phonology: intonation, and particularly its relation to metrics, its interface with syntax, and even if it may be attributed extra to phonetics or phonology, or both to either. Drawing on facts from six Romance languages (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan and Romanian), whose wealthy intonation styles have lengthy been of curiosity to linguists, J-Philippe Martin demanding situations the assumptions of conventional phonological techniques, and re-evaluates the knowledge in favour of a brand new usage-based version of intonation. He proposes a unified description of the sentence prosodic constitution, concentrating on the dynamic and cognitive points of either construction and belief of intonation in speech, resulting in a unified grammar of Romance languages' sentence intonation. This ebook should be welcomed by way of researchers and complex scholars in phonetics and phonology.

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Utilizing an cutting edge strategy, this ebook makes a speciality of a broadly debated quarter of phonetics and phonology: intonation, and particularly its relation to metrics, its interface with syntax, and no matter if it may be attributed extra to phonetics or phonology, or both to either. Drawing on facts from six Romance languages (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan and Romanian), whose wealthy intonation styles have lengthy been of curiosity to linguists, J-Philippe Martin demanding situations the assumptions of conventional phonological methods, and re-evaluates the knowledge in favour of a brand new usage-based version of intonation.

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