Subjectification, Intersubjectification and Grammaticalization (Topics in English Linguistics)

This volume aims to arrive at a fine-grained and grammar-based understanding of the notions of (inter-)subjectivity and (inter-)subjectification in their application to grammaticalization research.

Talk in Action: Interactions, Identities, and Institutions (Language in Society)

Talk in Action examines the language, identity, and interaction of social institutions, introducing students to the research methodology of Conversation Analysis.

Phonetic Interpretation: Papers in Laboratory Phonology VI (Papers in Laboratory Phonology)

This study presents innovative work from four core areas: phonological representations and the lexicon; phonetic interpretation and phrasal structure; phonetic interpretation and syllable structure; and phonology and natural speech production. Written by experts in the fields of phonetics, phonology and speech perception, the chapters in this volume use a wide range of laboratory and instrumental techniques to analyze the production and perception of speech.

This volume presents 14 experimental studies of lexical tone and intonation in a wide variety of languages. Six papers deal with the discriminability or the function of intonation contours and lexical tones in specific languages, as established on the basis of listener responses, as well as with brain activation patterns resulting from the perception of tonal and intonational stimuli.

Despite the recent advances in the integration of lexical tone and intonation in phonological theory, all too often the study of  intonation and the study of lexical tone are viewed as belonging to different research traditions. This collection strengthens the integrated approach by studying tone and intonation within a common framework, and by tracing their interaction in specific prosodic systems. Some papers deal with the structural properties of lexical tone and intonation, while others focus on the historical development of prosodic systems.