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As the title indicates, Prosodic Categories: Production, Perception and Comprehension addresses the central question of the role played by prosody in language grammar and language processing. The eleven chapters of this book were developed from presentations to the Third Tone and Intonation in Europe Conference (TIE3), hosted by the Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, in September 2008, and all of them deal with different aspects of the definition, implementation and processing of prosodic categories. They present novel contributions to the understanding of key issues in prosodic theory, such as prosodic phrasing in production and comprehension, the relationship between intonation and pragmatics in speech production, speech perception and comprehension, the development of prosodic categories that convey specific pragmatic meanings, the characterization of the prosody of sentence modality, the role of pitch in quantity-based sound systems, the phonology of consonant conditioned tone depression across languages, and the encoding of intonational contrasts both in intonational and in tonal languages.
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Frota, S., Elordieta, G., Prieto, P. (2011). Introduction. In: Frota, S., Elordieta, G., Prieto, P. (eds) Prosodic Categories: Production, Perception and Comprehension. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0137-3_1
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