Prosodic Typology

Sun-Ah Jun is Professor at the Department of Linguistics, UCLA, where she teaches phonetics, intonation, and phonology. She has been teaching at UCLA since she obtained her Ph.D from Ohio State University in 1993. She has also taught at the 2001 LSA Summer Institute, Santa Barbara, California. Her research focuses on Intonational Phonology, Laboratory Phonology, Phonology-Syntax interface, and the role of prosody in semantics, language acquisition, and sentence processing. She has published a book, The Phonetics and Phonology of Korean Prosody: Intonational Phonology and Prosodic Structure (Garland Publishing 1996).

This is a very useful contribution to the literature on intonation and prosody

• 1. Introduction ; 2. The Original ToBI System and the Evolution of the ToBI Framework ; 3. German Intonation in Autosegmental-Metrical Phonology ; 4. Intonational Analysis and Prosodic Annotation of Greek Spoken Corpora ; 5. Transcription of Dutch Intonation ; 6. Transcribing Serbo-Croatian Intonation ; 7. The J_ToBI Model of Japanese Intonation ; 8. Korean Intonational Phonology and Prosodic Transcription ; 9. Towards a Pan-Mandarin System for Prosodic Transcription ; 10. An Autosegmental-Metrical Analysis and Prosodic Annotation Conventions for Cantonese ; 11. Intonational Phonology of Chickasaw ; 12. Intonation in Six Dialects of Bininj Gun-wok ; 13. Strategies for Intonation Labelling across Varieties of Italian ; 14. Intonational Variation in Four Dialects of English: the High Rising Tune ; 15. Intonational Prominence in Varieties of Swedish Revisited ; 16. Prosodic Typology