‘Deaccenting’ and ‘Default Accent’

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. CONTENTS V
3. The Authors and their Affiliations VII
4. Phonology and Discourse: a Variety of Approaches 1
5. A Discourse Domain Identified by Intonation 10
6. Automatic Transcription of Intonation in Dutch 20
7. The Intonation of Sentences Read Aloud 46
8. The Relevance of Intonational Misfits 67
9. Stress and Accent in Language Production and Understanding 77
10. Grammatical Prerequisites to the Analysis of Speech Style: Fast/Casual Speech 91
11. Subordinating and Co-ordinating Intonation Structures in the Articulation of Discourse 120
12. ‘Deaccenting’ and ‘Default Accent’ 134
13. Intonation as an Adaptive Process 165
14. A Phonetic Approach to Intonation: from Pitch Contours to Intonation Patterns 193
15. Isochrony in English Speech: its Statistical Validity and Linguistic Relevance 203
16. Variable Strategies in Intonation 226
17. Recent Developments in Speech Signal Pitch Extraction 243
18. English Compound Stress 253
19. A Method for the Semantic Study of Syntactic Accents 267
20. An Observation Concerning Intensity as a Predictable Feature of Intonation 283
21. Logical Form and Prosodic Islands 311
22. Interrelations Between Fundamental Frequency and Other Acoustic Parameters of Emphatic Segments 327
23. Name Index 339
24. Subject Index 342
25. 351-354 351