About the Book
This collection of papers is the third volume of the series “Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics” (UBLI), a product of the 21st Century COE Program of the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS). Prosody, as used in this text, appears in units larger than segments and generally refers to the field that studies various phonological properties connected to utterances involving pitch, intensity, and length. These phonetic features almost always appear within complex combinations such as word and sentence accents and intonation. The subtitle, Cross-Linguistic perspectives, does not imply mere, cross-linguistic comparison and contrast of the prosodic phenomena. Rather, it implies that there are a variety of approaches which are unique to each language for prosodic analysis. In fact, the volume consists of prosodic analyses in 12 different languages : French, English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Makonde, Indonesian, Tagalog and Turkish.
Table of Contents:
1. Message from the President (by Ikehata, Setsuho), p1; 2. Center of Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics (UBLI) (by Kawaguchi, Yuji), p3; 3. Preface (by Kawaguchi, Yuji), p11; 4. Functions of Intonation (by Fonagy, Ivan), p19; 5. Prosodic Constituents in French: A Data-Driven Approach (by Vaissiere, Jacqueline), p47; 6. A Predictive Approach to the Analysis of Intonation in Discourse in French (by Mertens, Piet), p65; 7. English and German Prosody: A Contrastive Comparison (by Markus, Manfred), p103; 8. Nuclear-Stress Placement by Japanese Learners of English: Transfer from Japanese (by Saito, Hiroko), p125; 9. Mismatch of Stress and Accent in Spoken Spanish (by Kimura, Takuya), p141; 10. Markedness Gradient in the Portuguese Verb: How Morphology and Phonology Interact (by Carvalho, Joaquim Brandao de), p157; 11. Intonational Patterns in Russian Interrogatives: Phonetic Analyses and Phonological Interpretations (by Igarashi, Yosuke), p175; 12. Sociolinguistic Characteristics of Intonation (by Inoue, Fumio), p197; 13. Interaction between Phonetic Features and Accent-Placement in Japanese Family Names (by Sato, Hirokazu), p223; 14. The Intonation of Interrogative Utterances in the Japanese Dialogs: Analysis of the "TUFS Language Module" (by Takada, Mieko), p239; 15. The Prosody of Auxiliaries in Seoul Korean (by Utsugi, Akira), p265; 16. On the Nature of Rules Sensitive to Syntax: The Case of Makonde Tonology (by Patin, Cedric), p285; 17. An Acoustic Study on Intonation of Nominal Sentences in Indonesian (by Furihata, Masashi), p303; 18. Acoustic and Structural Analysis of Enclitic Particles in Tagalog (by Moriguchi, Tsunekazu), p327; 19. Intonation Patterns of Turkish Interrogatives (by Kawaguchi, Yuji), p349; 20. Index of Proper Nouns, p369; 21. Index of Subjects, p375; 22. Contributors, p383
