35.1887, Books: Compound Intonation Units in Totoli: Bracks (2024)

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Subject: 35.1887, Books: Compound Intonation Units in Totoli: Bracks (2024)

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Date: 28-Jun-2024
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [sebastian.nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: Compound Intonation Units in Totoli: Bracks (2024)


Title: Compound Intonation Units in Totoli
Subtitle: Postlexical prosody and the prosody-syntax interface
Series Title: Topics in Phonological Diversity
Publication Year: 2024
Publisher: Language Science Press
                http://langsci-press.org
Book URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/414

Author: Christoph Bracks
eBook: ISBN: 978-3-96110-436-9 Pages: 194 Price: Europe EURO 0
Abstract:

This book is an investigation into aspects of prosody, intonation and
the prosody-syntax interface in Totoli, an endangered Austronesian
language. With a strongly data-driven approach, the study integrates a
combination of experimental evidence from both production and
perception with corpus-based evidence through descriptive and
inferential statistics.

The study takes the prime structuring unit of speech – the Intonation
Unit – as its principal unit of investigation. It presents a thorough
description of the IU, develops an intonational model of it, and
investigates the syntactic units it contains. The author argues that
the data is best analysed by assuming recursive embedding of
Intonation Units into Compound Intonation Units.

This research represents a significant advancement in our
understanding of the nature of prosodic systems found in the languages
of the region and in intonational systems in general. It is one of the
few investigations into the intonation of Austronesian languages and
its analytical proposals are relevant both to prosodic theory and to
phonological typology.

Linguistic Field(s): Phonology
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Totoli (txe)

Written In: English (eng)



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