Prosodic Description: An Introduction for Fieldworkers

Himmelmann, Nikolaus P.; Ladd, D. Robert

Prosodic Description: An Introduction for Fieldworkers

dc.contributor.author	Himmelmann, Nikolaus P.
dc.contributor.author	Ladd, D. Robert
dc.date.accessioned	2008-12-29T07:47:47Z
dc.date.available	2008-12-29T07:47:47Z
dc.date.issued	2008-12
dc.description.abstract	This article provides an introductory tutorial on prosodic features such as tone and accent for researchers working on little-known languages. It specifically addresses the needs of non-specialists and thus does not presuppose knowledge of the phonetics and phonology of prosodic features. Instead, it intends to introduce the uninitiated reader to a field often shied away from because of its (in part real, but in part also just imagined) complexities. It consists of a concise overview of the basic phonetic phenomena (section 2) and the major categories and problems of their functional and phonological analysis (sections 3 and 4). Section 5 gives practical advice for documenting and analyzing prosodic features in the field.
dc.description.sponsorship	National Foreign Language Resource Center
dc.identifier.citation	Himmelmann, Nikolaus P., and D. Robert Ladd. 2008. Prosodic description: An introduction for fieldworkers. Language Documentation & Conservation 2(2):244–274.
dc.identifier.issn	1934-5275
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10125/4345
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher	University of Hawai'i Press
dc.subject	prosody
dc.subject	tone
dc.subject	accent
dc.subject	fieldwork
dc.title	Prosodic Description: An Introduction for Fieldworkers
dc.type	Article
dc.type.dcmi	Text
prism.endingpage	274
prism.number	2
prism.publicationname	Language Documentation & Conservation
prism.startingpage	244
prism.volume	2