Prosodic Typology II

Sun-Ah Jun is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She received her Ph.D. from the Ohio State University in 1993 and has been teaching at UCLA since. She also taught at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Summer Institute in 2001 and the Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics (LOT) Summer School in 2013. Her research focuses on intonational phonology, prosodic typology, the interface between prosody and the various subareas of linguistics, and language acquisition. Her publications include The Phonetics and Phonology of Korean Prosody: Intonational Phonology and Prosodic Structure (Garland Publishing, Inc., 1996) and she is the editor of the first volume of Prosodic Typology (OUP, 2005).

• 1. Introduction ; 2. The Intonational Phonology of European Portuguese ; 3. The Intonational Phonology of Catalan ; 4. The Intonational Phonology of Bangladeshi Standard Bengali ; 5. The Intonational Phonology of Tamil ; 6. An Autosegmental-Metrical Analysis of Georgian Intonation ; 7. The Intonational Phonology of Mongolian ; 8. Prosodic Structure and Focus Realization in West Greenlandic ; 9. Intonation and Prosody in Dalabon ; 10. Aspects of the Intonational Phonology of Jamaican Creole ; 11. The Marked Accentuation Pattern of Curacao Papiamentu ; 12. Complex Intonation Near the Tonal isogloss in the Netherlands ; 13. The Intonation of Lebanese and Egyptian Arabic ; 14. Intonation in Basque ; 15. Typology of Intonational Phrasing in Japanese Dialects ; 16. Methodology of Studying Intonation: From Data Collection to Data Analysis ; 17. Prosodic Typology: By Prominence Type, Word prosody, and Macro-rhythm ; References ; Index

Review from previous edition This is a book that any serious university library and any serious prosody researcher should own.