17.10.2001: Introduction

Overview:

The class will start out with organisational issues, and continue with an overview of the main concepts to be dealt with in the areas of intonation and discourse.

Reports:

Terms to research on the web - pick 3, and note your results in a Word document as a basis for a report to the class:

1. intonation
2. prosody
3. (pitch) accent
4. stress
5. emphasis
6. focus
7. (speech) rhythm
8. tone
9. ToBI
10. prosodic annotation
11. pitch
12. intensity
13. prosodic hierarchy