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Book SynopsisThe intonational diversity of regional varieties provides a challenge to both traditional and autosegmental theories of intonation, which mostly derived from the study of national standard languages. The ten chapters in this book give an overview of current research covering regional varieties of English, German, Italian and Greek. While all contributions share a general autosegmental perspective, they represent different approaches and use different types of data ranging from experimental speech data to spontaneous conversational speech.
Trade Review"Insgesamt vermittelt der Sammelband nicht nur einen facettenreichen Einblick in die Erforschung regionaler Variation von Intonation, sondern damit auch auch gleichzeitig in die moderne Phonologie. Das theoretische Niveau ist anspruchsvoll und bei aller Nahe zu einem autosegmentalen Rahmen zeigt sich auch eine wohltuende Offenheit fur damit weniger konforme Perspektiven."Uli Reich in: Zeitschrift fur Sprachwissenschaft 6/2006
Table of ContentsContents: Peter Gilles/Jörg Peters, Introduction. - Esther Grabe, Intonational variation in urban dialects of English spoken in the British Isles. - Margit Aufterbeck, Identifying sociolinguistic variables in intonation: The Onset Onglide in Anstruther Scottish English. - Margret Selting, Regionalized intonation in its conversational context. - Frank Kügler, The phonology and phonetics of nuclear rises in Swabian German. - Christiane Ulbrich, A comparative study of declarative intonation in Swiss and German standard varieties. - Karin Birkner, List intonation of German and Portuguese bilinguals in South Brazil. - Michelina Savino, Intonational cues to discourse structure in a regional variety of Italian. - Martine Grice/Michelina Savino, Information structure and questions. Evidence from task-oriented dialogues in a variety of Italian. - Dimitris Papazachariou, Intonation variables in Greek polar questions. - Beat Siebenhaar/Martin Forst/Eric Keller, Prosody of Bernese and Zurich German: What the development of a dialectal speech synthesis system tells us about it.
