Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody: A Special Issue of Language and Cognitive Processes(Special Issues of Language and Cognitive Processes)

Modern project management had its genesis in the field of operations research in the late 1940s, but today it is a much more diverse subject. It has evolved and developed a much wider range of methods, techniques, and skills that the project manager can draw upon. Not all these skills are relevant to every project, but an assortment of them will be relevant to most. This book aims to describe for students, researchers and managers the full range of skills that project managers can use to develop their methodologies.The authors group the skills into nine perspectives, representing nine schools of project management research and theory. By attaching a metaphor to each of these perspectives, students, researchers and managers are better able to understand each approach and decide whether it is best suited to the development of a strategy for managing their project. Perspectives on Projects builds upon the various theoretical orientations that the field of project management has developed. Featuring several case studies, drawn from a variety of settings, to illustrate how the different schools can provide different perspectives on projects, this book is an ideal text for anyone involved in project management.

Table of Contents:
M. Wagner, D.G. Watson, Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody: A Review. A. Anttila, M. Adams, M. Speriosu, The Role of Prosody in the English Dative Alternation. J. Barnes, N. Veilleux, A. Brugos, S. Shattuck-Hufnagel, Turning Points, Tonal Targets, and the English L-phrase Accent. B. Braun, L. Tagliapietra, The Role of Contrastive Intonation Contours in the Retrieval of Contextual Alternatives. M. Breen, E. Fedorenko, M. Wagner, E. Gibson, Acoustic Correlates of Information Structure. S. Calhoun, How Does Informativeness Affect Prosodic Prominence? J. Cole, Y. Mo, S. Baek, The Role of Syntactic Structure in Guiding Prosody Perception with Ordinary Listeners and Everyday Speech. A. Isaacs, D.G. Watson, Accent Detection is a Slippery Slope: Direction and Rate of F0 Change Drives Listeners’ Comprehension. S.A. Jun, The Implicit Prosody Hypothesis and Overt Prosody in English. J. Snedeker, E. Casserly, Is it All Relative? Effects of Prosodic Boundaries on the Comprehension and Production of Attachment Ambiguities. I. Stoyneshka-Raleva, J.D. Fodor, E. Fernandez, Phoneme Restoration Methods Reveal Prosodic Influences on Syntactic Processing.

About the Author :
Duane G. Watson, Univeristy of Illinois, USA Michael Wagner, McGill University, USA Edward Gibson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA