Abstract
This special issue of Linguistik Online collects four articles by researchers whose contribution to prosody research has been seminal. The main aims of the issue are to introduce the reader to some leading approaches to prosody and to increase discussion between scholars working within different frameworks. The main focus of the contributing authors’ work has been prosodic aspects of Italian and German, and their articles make particular reference to these languages. However, neither research in English, nor English as an object language, can or should be ignored when working on prosody, as substantial theories on it – and especially on intonation – were first developed for British English and American English. We believe that the four articles all address crucial issues, including the role of prosody in linguistic description and its place in a general theory of language.
Highlights
This special issue of Linguistik Online collects four articles by researchers whose contribution to prosody research has been seminal
Since it is impossible to summarize all the current prosody research here, we will just touch upon some important issues and formulate some questions which we consider crucial for a better understanding of the topic
Our overview is divided into four sections, three of which relate to the key topics of the special issue, namely: grammar, information structure and interaction
Summary
Prosody is usually taken to include features such as length, accent, stress, tone, intonation, etc. Prosody research on intonation languages like Italian, German and English to date has focused mainly on accent E. the melody of pitch changes in a speaker’s voice) and the contributions to the present issue are no exception. Since it is impossible to summarize all the current prosody research here, we will just touch upon some important issues and formulate some questions which we consider crucial for a better understanding of the topic. Our overview is divided into four sections, three of which relate to the key topics of the special issue, namely: grammar, information structure and interaction. In the fourth section we address the question of prosody and meaning, which is fundamental to all three key topics
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