Publisher''s note List of illustrations Foreword Jonathan Barnes Translator''s preface Merle Horne Author''s preface 1. What is prosody? Introduction Background The study of prosody Interest in prosody Characterization of prosody The functions of prosody Alternative / simultaneous means of expression Prosodic phonetics and phonology Outline of the book 2. Lexical prosody Introduction Syllable structure Quantity Language typology Quantity in Finnish Quantity in Swedish Stress Language typology Metrical phonology Stress in Swedish Non-compound words, lexicon, and morphology Basic rules for non-compound words Compound words Final-element stress in North Swedish Other areas Tones Language typology Autosegmental phonology Scandinavian word accent Word accent in non-compound words in Swedish Word accent in compound words Stød in Danish The marking status of word accents 3. Analysis of prosody Introduction Ear-phonetics and machine-phonetics Production, acoustics, and perception of prosody Scales for pitch curves Microprosody Analysis of pitch patterns Analysis of rhythm, stress, and length Consequences of microprosody Citation form Laboratory speech vs natural speech 4. Prominence and rhythm Introduction Rhythmic and tonal prominence Prominence in Swedish The question of degrees of stress A model for prominence levels Rhythm and stress General aspects of rhythm Speech-rhythm typology Phrase-rhythm principles The phonetic correlates of stress Quantity Summary 5. Tonal prominence Introduction Accentuation and focusing Language typology Tonal prominence in (Central) Swedish Accent I and accent II Simple and compound words Conclusion Emphasis and focus Accentuation''s dialectal variation Accentuation in Japanese Accentuation in Somali Chinese word tones Word tones in Kammu 6. Prosodic phrasing Introduction The prosodic word Linguistic structure and prosody Grammatical and prosodic phrasing Phrasing and accentuation Phonetic correlates of phrasing Phrase intonation in Dutch and French Global and local intonation patterns Prosodic phrasing in Swedish One-word phrases (compounds) and two-word phrases Three- and four-word phrases Phrasing in somewhat longer utterances Perception of phrasing Prosodic phrasing in texts Pausing and grouping 7. Prosodic transcription Introduction Transcription of speech sounds: generalities Phonetic transcription Phonological and phonetic transcription The connection annotation - phonetic signaling The International phonetic alphabet (IPA) IPA''s objectives and principles IPA''s prosodic symbols Prosodic discourse transcription Transcription with ToBI Labeling with INTSINT Basic prosodic transcription for Swedish Tonal transcription of Swedish Evaluating a transcription 8.

Text and dialogue prosody Introduction Analysis of discourse and dialogue prosody Analysis of discourse and dialogue structure Prosodic analysis Speech synthesis Text- and paragraph prosody Focus placement Conversationa-topic structure Division into speech paragraphs Dialogue prosody Speaking style and prosody Dialogue intonation 9. Applied prosody Introduction First-language acquisition Learning of word prosody Second-language learning Swedish as a second language Swedish as source language Prosodic dialect adaptation Dysprosody Dysprosody and ''foreign accent syndrome'' Prosody and speech technology.