Prosody is constitutive for spoken interaction. In more than 25 years, its study has grown into a full-fledged and very productive field with a sound catalogue

These essays study the role of prosody in everyday English, German, and Italian conversation.

This book provides an in-depth investigation of contrastive focalization in Italian, showing that its syntactic expression is systematically affected by the syn

This volume explores the elusive subject of English prosody—the stress, rhythm and intonation of the language—, and its relevance for English language teach

Intonation units have been notoriously difficult to identify in natural talk. Problems include fuzzy boundaries, lack of exhaustivity, and the potential circula