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	UCSB Linguistics Research: Prosody
		Research on prosody in the UCSB Linguistics Department encompasses diverse topics in a broad cross-section of languages.
		Researchers also examine the prosody of signed languages as well as the relationship between prosody and embodied communication such as gesture.
		Emphasis is placed on instrumental studies to provide a rigorous empirical basis for the typological study of prosody.
	www.linguistics.ucsb.edu /research/prosody.html (105 words)

	Encyclopedia: Prosody (linguistics)
		In linguistics, prosody refers to intonation, rhythm, and vocal stress in speech.
		Cognitive linguistics is a school of linguistics and cognitive science, which aims to provide accounts of language that mesh well with current understandings of the human mind, and is generally opposed to the more syntactocentric approaches to meaning in generative linguistics.
		Historical linguistics (also diachronic linguistics or comparative linguistics) is primarily the study of the ways in which languages change over time, by means of examining languages which are recognizably related through similarities such as vocabulary, word formation, and syntax, as well as the surviving records of ancient languages.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Prosody-(linguistics) (1345 words)

	While the dysprosody associated with Parkinson’s disease (PD) has been well described, research on the ...
		In the present investigation, we sought to examine the comprehension of emotional and non-emotional prosody among individuals with PD (n=14), neurologically healthy age and education-matched elders (n=17), and college-age adults (n=16).
		Some investigators of the neuropsychology of prosody have argued that dissociations between emotional and syntactic prosody among neurologic patients may- in part- be due to differences in task demands, rather than specialization of cortical areas for interpretation of a speakers emotional state and linguistic intent.
		The absence of correlation between emotional prosody comprehension and emotional faces for the PD group suggests that the relatively poor performance on emotional prosody comprehension is independent from a generalized ability to interpret emotions (i.e., a material-specific model of emotional processing).
	www.pages.drexel.edu /~kld22/INSprosody2002.html (1257 words)

	College Catalog - Reed College
		Research in linguistics encompasses theories of how languages vary (and fail to vary) across space and time, how grammar evolved in the species and develops in the individual, and how language is used to create and reinforce social relationships.
		Linguistics at Reed has an interdisciplinary orientation: through the allied field and language requirements, students are encouraged to develop links to other fields, including English, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, mathematics, psychology, biology, and classical and modern languages and literatures.
		Linguistics 470 (thesis), which may, as appropriate, be jointly supervised by faculty members from linguistics and an allied field.
	web.reed.edu /catalog/programs/dept_majors/ling.html (839 words)

	Bibliography
		1980, "The prosody of grammar and the grammar of prosody".
		On the analysis of prosody in spontaneous speech with exemplification from Swedish and French.
		Proceedings of the Prosody Symposium, Galf, University of Toronto, 10-18.
	www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de /phonetik/joerg/biblio/biblio.html (14008 words)

	Prosody in Conversation - Cambridge University Press
		On the prosody and syntax of turn-continuations Peter Auer; 3.
		Prosody as an activity-type distinctive cue in conversation: the case of so-called ‘astonished’ questions in repair initiation Margret Selting; 7.
		The prosody of repetition: on quoting and mimicry Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen; 10.
	www.cambridge.org /uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521460751 (326 words)

	Prosody LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER
		Prosody consists of distinctive variations of stress, tone, and timing in spoken language.
		In linguistics, prosody includes intonation and vocal stress in speech.
		In vocal music, prosody refers to the way the composer sets the text in the assignment of syllables to notes in the melody to which the text is sung; this is particularly a function of rhythm and is not to be confused with musical form.
	language.school-explorer.com /info/Prosody (145 words)

	Prosody (linguistics) . Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In linguistics, prosody describes all the acoustic properties of speech that cannot be predicted from a local window on the orthographic (or similar) transcription.
		So, prosody is relative to a default pronuciation of a phoneme/feature bundle/segment/syllable; it does not include coarticulation because coarticulation is predictable from the immediate phonological or orthographic neighborhood.
		Acoustically, prosody describes changes in the syllable length, loudness, pitch, and certain details of the formant structure of speech sounds.
	enpsychlopedia.org /psypsych/Suprasegmental_feature (885 words)

	Prosody: The Music of Language and Speech
		Prosody is a tool of human expression that is conveyed acoustically by way of durational, intensity, and frequency cues.
		Broadly speaking, prosody serves to aid the transmission of linguistic and paralinguistic (emotional and attitudinal) information in a manner that is efficient and appropriate in a given language community.
		The terms intrinsic and extrinsic prosody describe motor speech functions that are motivated by the linguistic code on the one hand, and use of the code for pragmatic effect on the other.
	www.asha.org /about/publications/leader-online/archives/2003/q1/030304f.htm (2158 words)

	LINGUIST List 12.2556: Speech Prosody, Computational Linguistics
		As a matter of policy, LINGUIST discourages the use of abbreviations or acronyms in conference announcements unless they are explained in the text.
		Prosody and the Brain Kai Alter (Max-Planck-Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Germany) vi.
		Prosody and Meaning Carlos Gussenhoven (University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands) - ------------------------------- Call for papers Papers are invited presenting original work in any area of the field of speech prosody.
	www.linguistlist.org /issues/12/12-2556.html (1073 words)

	Phonology Summary
		Phonology rests on a series of presumptions—each supported by a vast body of observations—that together entail that the sounds of natural languages are not arbitrary human noises, on a par with grunts or snorts, whose individuating attributes lie entirely outside the domain of grammar.
		The principles of phonological theory have also been applied to the analysis of sign languages, in which it is argued that the same or a similar phonological system underlies both signed and spoken languages.
		This is one of the main factors of historical change of languages as described in historical linguistics.
	www.bookrags.com /Phonology (3009 words)

	What's Happening: Linguistics Colloquia, Linguistics Dept., WCAS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Prosody, the rhythm and intonation patterns of spoken language, encodes information about the phrasing and pragmatic content of an utterance, and helps listeners to understand speech with minimum cognitive load.
		Given the important role for prosody in human speech understanding, and its effect on acoustic variation, it is surprising to consider that current approaches to computer Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) do not attempt to model prosody.
		These combined results contribute to the linguistic understanding of prosody through the convergence of direct evidence (from acoustic analysis) and indirect evidence (from improved ASR results) for the significant effects of prosody on acoustic variation in non-laboratory speech.
	www.wcas.northwestern.edu /linguistics/happening/cole.html (286 words)

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		I single out Allen as a linguist whose talent for elegance and communication has made his little books useful and famous; he is also, of course, the author of the well-written Accent and Rhythm (1973), an important piece of comprehensive scholarship in the field of theoretical Greek prosody.
		The ten chapters of the book are, accordingly, devoted to: the physiology of prosody (1), the syllable (2), rhythm (3), pitch (4), word prosody (5), connected speech (6), the appositive group (7), the minor phrase (8), the major phrase and utterance (9), and topic and focus (10).
		From a historical and applied linguistics point of view the omission of any diachronic or dialectal perspective from the prolegomena is astonishing.
	www.infomotions.com /serials/bmcr/bmcr-9507-dobrov-prosody.txt (1255 words)

	What should a Model of Prosody do?
		A model of prosody is a theory of nature, it states (explicitly or implicitly) how humans communicate, and what they are communicating.
		All aspects of prosody are transmitted by muscle motions, and in most of them, the recipient can percieve, fairly directly, the motions of the speaker.
		For a model of prosody to be a description of a language, instead of just a scheme for efficiently coding f0 contours, we should be able to correlate the results of the fit with linguistically important features.
	prosodies.org /tutorial2002/section2/what-is-good-model.html (1204 words)

	LINGUISTICS
		Background and scope of modern linguistics; behaviorist versus rationalist theories of language; universal and cognitive aspects of language structure; interplay of genetic and social factors in language formation; linguistic analysis.
		Linguistic analysis as a basis for the teaching of English as a foreign language; language as rule-governed behavior.
		Intensive investigation of the main trends in the history of linguistics, concentrating on the development of nineteenth-century historical linguistics, the various schools of structural linguistics, and transformational-generative grammar.
	www.washington.edu /students/crscat/ling.html (3172 words)

	Prosody - Definition [KAT109VZLA]
		Prosody and intonation cover much the same ground; as an overall term is needed, prosody will be used.
		Where speech-sounds such as vowels and consonants function mainly to provide an indication of the identity of words and the regional variety of the speaker, prosody can indicate syntax, turn-taking in conversational interactions, types of utterance such as questions and statements, and people's attitudes and feelings.
		The forms (or elements) of prosody are derived from the acoustic characteristics of speech.
	kat109vzla.blogg.de /eintrag.php?id=5 (354 words)

	Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
		The Linguistics department is home to one of the oldest and most distinguished linguistics programs in the United States.
		While all PhD candidates are expected to acquire a solid background in contemporary linguistic theory, the department places great emphasis on the inseparability of good theoretical work and detailed empirical research, and on the interrelatedness of diachronic and synchronic approaches to the study of linguistic phenomena.
		Preference is normally given to candidates with a previous background in linguistics, but students with a mature interest in the field and a strong language background are encouraged to apply as well.
	www.gsas.harvard.edu /programs_of_study/linguistics.php (2028 words)

	Prosody - Wikipedia
		Prosody in linguistics includes intonation and vocal stress in speech.
		Prosody in poetry includes the scansion and metrical shape of the lines.
		Prosody in music refers to the way the composer sets the text of a vocal composition in the assignment of syllables to notes in the melody to which the text is sung; this is particularly a function of rhythm and pitch, and is not to be confused with musical form.
	en.wikilib.com /wiki/Prosody (128 words)

	List of linguistic topics
		dangling modifier - dative case - decipherment - declension - descriptive linguistics - dental consonant - derivation - determiner - diacritic - diaeresis - dialect - dictionary - diphthong - discourse - double acute accent - dual grammatical number
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		tense - thematic role - theoretical linguistics - thesaurus - thou - tonal language - tongue-twister - transcription - Transformational-generative grammar - translation - translative case - truth condition - T-V distinction - typology
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/li/List_of_linguistic_topics.html (451 words)

	UHM Graduate Studies - Linguistics
		Linguistics is the study of how language works—how it is acquired, how it is used, how it evolves over time, and how it is represented in the brain.
		The Department of Linguistics at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (UHM) is recognized as one of the top 25 in the United States.
		Plan C is open to selected students with some previous work in linguistics that show both high potential for scholarly development and the motivation and discipline necessary for an independent course of study.
	www.hawaii.edu /graduatestudies/fields/html/departments/hijkl/linguistics/linguistics.htm (979 words)

	Linguistics 201: Prosody (suprasegmental features)
		The study of phonological features which apply to groups larger than the single segment, such as the syllable or the word, are known as suprasegmental features.
		Let's briefly discuss the notion of syllables. Like all of our other basic linguistic concepts, although everyone knows what a syllable is, the concept "syllable" is difficult to define in absolute terms.
		Articulatory definition--a syllable depends on the obstruction of the vocal tract during speech, the nucleus of a syllable may be defined as the point when the airstream is least obstructed--the sonorant peak.
	pandora.cii.wwu.edu /vajda/ling201/test2materials/prosody.htm (1200 words)

	International Phonetic Alphabet [Definition] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This article is about the alphabet officially used in linguistics Broadly conceived, linguistics is the study of human language, and a linguist is someone who engages in this study.
		The study of linguistics can be thought of along three major axes, the endpoints of which are described below: Synchronic and diachronic - Synchronic study of a language is concerned with its form at a given moment; diachronic study covers the history of a language (group) and its structural changes over time.
		The NATO phonetic alphabetThe NATO phonetic alphabet is a common name for the radiotelephony spelling alphabet of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), which assigned words to the letters of the English alphabet so that critical combinations of letters could be pronounced and understood by aircrew and air traffic controllers regardless of their native language.
	www.wikimirror.com /International_Phonetic_Alphabet (4542 words)

	University of Arizona Linguistics Department, UA Linguistics Department, UofA Linguistics Deparment, Official Website
		We are particularly proud of the interdisciplinary opportunities for students interested in disciplines like linguistics, psychology, anthropology, speech, first or second language acquisition, and cognitive science.
		Richard A. Demers, Prof., Linguistics, Cognitive Science (UWashington 1968) Structures of Native American languages, in particular those of the northwest, instrumental phonetics and its role in providing evidence for phonological theory.
		Prof., Linguistics (UArizona 1996) Phonological acquisition in normal language and speech-language impaired populations, phonology, psycholinguistics.
	linguistics.arizona.edu /programs/graduate/sound.php (383 words)

	Janet Dean Fodor, CUNY Graduate Center
		Cross-linguistic studies of sentence processing and prosody; implicit prosody in silent reading; learnability theory; simulation studies of syntactic parameter setting.
		Prosody and Processing of Syntactic Ambiguities by Native Speakers and Second Language Learners.
		Linguistic Uses of Fundamental Frequency in Mandarin and English: Implications for Second-language Speakers.
	web.gc.cuny.edu /Linguistics/people/jfodor/index.html (194 words)

	ESCA Workshop on Prosody 1993
		Aubergé, Véronique: "Prosody modeling with a dynamic lexicon of intonative forms: application for text-to-speech synthesis", 62-65.
		Hargrove, Patricia M. / McGarr, Nancy S.: "A transdisciplinary model for prosody applied to the teaching of clinical populations", 196-199.
		Terken, Jacques: "Issues in the perception of prosody", 228-233.
	www.isca-speech.org /archive/prosody_93/index.html (1094 words)

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