Prosodic Studies

<p>Prosody is one of the core components of language and speech indicating information about syntax turn-taking in conversation types of utterances such as questions or statements as well as speakers' attitudes and feelings. </p><p>This edited volume takes studies in prosody on Asian languages as well as examples from other languages. It brings together the most recent research in the field and also charts the influence on such diverse fields as multimedia communication and SLA. </p><p>Intended for a wide audience of linguists that includes neighbouring disciplines such as computational sciences psycholinguists and specialists in language acquisition <i>Prosodic Studies </i>is also ideal for scholars and researchers working in intonation who want a complement of information on specifics.</p>