Intonation and Discourse

Dafydd Gibbon

Created 12. July 1999 (Version of February 10, 2000 )

Basic reading in phonetics and speech analysis:

J. Clark & C. Yallop (1990), An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology, Oxford: Blackwell (or a later edition).

D. Gibbon, R. Moore & R. Winski (1997). Handbook of Standards and Resou rces for Spoken Language Systems. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Other links:

• Other phonetics/phonology class pages, and
• Other classes on text and discourse (in particular pragmatics and text linguistics)

on my web site.

 
• Language variation: spoken and written varieties
• The structure of written discourse: text linguistics
• The structure of discourse: spoken dialogue
• Intonation and discourse: some approaches
• Describing prosodic signs: forms of intonation
  • Exercises
• Multimedia document objects: audio, graphics
• Practical intonation description: ToBI
• Project and term paper
• Referencce materials
• Reference materials: Speech related materials on the web
  • Bielefeld `Virtually Teaching' series of interactive teaching materials
  • Diverse external links
  • Products