D. Robert Ladd is Professor of Linguistics in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. He has published extensively on various aspects of intonation in the field's leading journals, including Language, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, and Journal of Phonetics.
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Part I. Preliminaries: 1. Introduction to intonational phonology; 2. Fundamental concepts of the autosegmentalâmetrical theory; Part II. Pitch: 3. Analysis and transcription of intonation; 4. Issues in AM pitch phonology; 5. Intonational phonetics: alignment and scaling of tonal targets; Part III. Phrasing and Prominence: 6. Patterns of sentence stress; 7. Phonological issues in sentence stress; 8. Prosodic structure.
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Part I. Preliminaries: 1. Introduction to intonational phonology 2. Fundamental concepts of the autosegmental-metrical theory Part II. Pitch: 3. Analysis and transcription of intonation 4. Issues in AM pitch phonology 5. Intonational phonetics: alignment and scaling of tonal targets Part III. Phrasing and Prominence: 6. Patterns of sentence stress 7. Phonological issues in sentence stress 8. Prosodic structure.
