Intonation and Prosodic Structure

Caroline Féry was educated in Brussels, her native town, and in Konstanz. From 1999, she was Professor for Theory of Grammar/Phonology at the University of Potsdam where she founded the Research Center on Information Structure funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Since 2009, she has been Professor of Phonology at the Goethe University Frankfurt, where she is the director of a graduate school on nominal modification. Her interests lie in the prosodic and tonal structure of languages, and in the interface between syntax and intonation, as well as in the theory of grammar. She has edited several books.

• 1. Introduction; 2. Phonetic correlates of intonation; 3. Lower-level prosodic constituents; 4. Intonation and syntax: the higher-level prosodic constituents; 5. Models of intonation; 6. Intonation and meaning; 7. Tone and stress at the word level; 8. Sentence intonation in a typological comparison; 9. The processing of intonation; 10. Summary and conclusion.

'This book will make a very useful resource for graduate students and researchers in other areas of linguistics wanting to understand how prosody and intonation work on a theoretical and practical level. It is becoming increasingly clear that prosody and intonation interact with all other levels of language, from phones to whole discourses, so researchers need the tools and understanding to analyse the contribution of prosody to their data. It is great to see the broad coverage of levels of prosody and languages in this book.' Sasha Calhoun, Senior Lecturer and Linguistics Programme Director, Victoria University of Wellington