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This study concerns the interaction of 'focus' with the verbal system of Ejagham, an Ekoid Bantu language. In particular it concerns the multiple forms of the perfective and imperfective aspects. The Ejagham system differs from the tendency in Bantu systems. The verb forms in Ejagham have a 'constituent' focus form that sub-categorizes predicates ("verbs") with terms ("nps"), and an 'operator' focus form used whenever the verbal operator is within the scope of focus. Bantu languages commonly have a form used when the verbal complement falls within the scope of focus but another form for other cases. So Bantu languages tend to group predicates with verbal operators. In addition, Ejagham conflates assertive and contrastive focus, a distinction that is important in other Bantoid languages in the general vicinity of Ejagham but not in Ejagham.

African languages --- Focus (Linguistics) --- Intonation (Phonetics) --- Typology (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative --- Phonetics --- Grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Language and languages --- Linguistics --- Pitch (Phonetics) --- Prosodic analysis (Linguistics) --- Tone (Phonetics) --- Oral interpretation --- Discourse analysis --- Intonation --- Topic and comment

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The concept of affinities, or pitch relationships, was fundamental to modal theory in the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance. For the first time, Delores Pesce brings together theoretical perspectives on this subject from the end of the ninth century to the middle of the sixteenth, spanning the ideas of Hucbald through Guido of Arezzo, Jacques de Liège, Marchetto of Padua, Tinctoris, and Aaron to those of Glareanus. Pesce provides a comprehensive survey of problematic chants and of medieval solutions for them. She also traces the arguments that led to the rejection of the affinities and the acceptance of transposition in the modern sense. Scholars will find this volume invaluable for addressing issues related to modal classification and notational practices, in both chant and polyphony.

Transposition (Music) --- Musical intervals and scales. --- Music theory. --- Music theory --- History --- Intervals (Music) --- Modes, Musical --- Music --- Musical modes --- Musical scales and intervals --- Scales (Music) --- Musical temperament --- Transposing (Music) --- Musical pitch --- Musical theory --- Theory of music --- Modes --- Theory --- History of music

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This book addresses students and researchers of both phonetics and phonology, and the semantics and pragmatics of discourse. It employs an autosegmental-metrical model of intonation to investigate the marking of aspects of information structure, concentrating on the Given-New dimension. It begins with an overview of the state of the art in the areas of intonation and information structure, and, since the term 'Givenness' has been used in the literature in diverging ways, provides a model of 'Givenness proper', focusing on the cognitive states of discourse referents, and how these states are expressed through the choice of words and their prosody. The empirical evidence provided here is based on German. It comprises the analysis of a read corpus and two perception experiments which show that the dichotomy of 'accented' versus 'unaccented' corresponding to 'New' versus 'Given' information is inadequate. In fact, there is evidence that a range of pitch accent types (including deaccentuation) can be mapped onto the gradient scale of Givenness degrees, with the pitch height on the accented syllable being the determining factor.

Cognition. --- Discourse analysis. --- German language --- Intonation (Phonetics) --- Pragmatics. --- Semantics. --- Intonation. --- Intonation (Phonetics). --- Psychology --- Pragmalinguistics --- General semantics --- Language and languages --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Linguistics --- Pitch (Phonetics) --- Phonetics --- Prosodic analysis (Linguistics) --- Tone (Phonetics) --- Oral interpretation --- Philosophy --- Intonation

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This second edition presents a completely revised overview of research on intonational phonology since the 1970s, including new material on research developments since the mid 1990s. It contains a new section discussing the research on the alignment of pitch features that has developed since the first edition was published, a substantially rewritten section on ToBI transcription that takes account of the application of ToBI principles to other languages, and new sections on the phonetic research on accent and focus. The substantive chapters on the analysis and transcription of pitch contours, pitch range, sentence stress and prosodic structure have been reorganised and updated. In addition, there is an associated website with sound files of the example sentences discussed in the book. This well-known study will continue to appeal to researchers and graduate students who work on any aspect of intonation.

Intonation (Phonetics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Autosegmental theory (Linguistics) --- Metrical phonology --- Phonology --- Metrical phonology. --- Phonology. --- Autosegmental theory (Linguistics). --- Intonation (Phonetics). --- Language and languages --- Linguistics --- Pitch (Phonetics) --- Phonetics --- Prosodic analysis (Linguistics) --- Tone (Phonetics) --- Oral interpretation --- Autosegmental phonology --- Intonation --- Morphology --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Phonology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Phonology