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The Melody and Rhythm of Speech: General and Swedish Prosody

The Melody and Rhythm of Speech: General and Swedish Prosody

Bruce, Gösta
Horne, Merle
Horne, Merle

Hardcover

Series: Lund University Press

LinguisticsSwedish

ISBN10: 9198740466
ISBN13: 9789198740462
Publisher: Lund University Press
Published: Jul 14 2026
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The melody and rhythm of speech: General and Swedish prosody is the only book of its kind on the market. It deals with features of speech that together with consonants and vowels contribute to create meaning in utterances and contribute to give speech its maximal strength as means of human communication. The book deals with prosody at all levels, from the word to text and dialogue and presents models for rhythmic and tonal prominence using an Autosegmental Metrical theoretical approach. On the practical side, the book also describes methods for carrying out prosodic analysis and for transcribing prosody. Aspects of applied prosody are also taken up, including dysprosody, language acquisition, and speech technology. The book gives a coherent and pedagogical presentation of speech prosody by Gösta Bruce, one of the most outstanding international experts on prosody of our time.

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