Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Message from the President 1
4. Center of Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics (UBLI) 3
5. Preface 11
6. Functions of Intonation 19
7. Prosodic Constituents in French 47
8. A Predictive Approach to the Analysis of Intonation in Discourse in French 65
9. English and German Prosody 103
10. Nuclear-Stress Placement by Japanese Learners of English 125
11. Mismatch of Stress and Accent in Spoken Spanish 141
12. Markedness Gradient in the Portuguese Verb 157
13. Intonational Patterns in Russian Interrogatives 175
14. Sociolinguistic Characteristics of Intonation 197
15. Interaction between Phonetic Features and Accent-Placement in Japanese Family Names 223
16. The Intonation of Interrogative Utterances in the Japanese Dialogs 239
17. The Prosody of Auxiliaries in Seoul Korean 265
18. On the Nature of Rules Sensitive to Syntax 285
19. An Acoustic Study on Intonation of Nominal Sentences in Indonesian 303
20. Acoustic and Structural Analysis of Enclitic Particles in Tagalog 327
21. Intonation Patterns of Turkish Interrogatives 349
22. Index of Proper Nouns 369
23. Index of Subjects 375
24. Contributors 383