Students who successfully complete this course
- are able to explain what prosody is and what its role is in speech production and perception;
- can explain what are the phonetic exponents of prosodic subsystems;
- can explain how prosody is phonologically organized and represented;
- can explain what are the major typological differences among prosodic subsystems that involve stress, phrasing, and intonation, and how these are connected to lexical uses of the same phonetic parameters (eg tone and lexical pitch accent);
- understand the sources and role of variation in shaping prosody
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The focus of this course is on prosody. The course will first focus on the role and uses of prosody in speech production and perception. It will cover the phonetic exponents of prosody and how they can be experimentally examined. Further, the course will link these exponents to subsystems of phonology related to prosody, namely stress and rhythm, prosodic structure and phrasing, and intonation.
The second part of the course will be focused on typology and variation. Cross-linguistic, typological differences related to prosody will be covered. In addition, recent research on sources of variation in prosody will be discussed, as well as ways of dealing with such variation in the study of prosody production and perception.
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