Course announcements in this post:
- 24.979 Topics in Semantics
- 24.964 Topics in Phonology: Sentence Prosody
24.979 Topics in Semantics: Getting High: Scope, Projection, and Evaluation Order
- Instructors: Patrick Elliott & Martin Hackl
- Schedule: Thursdays 2-5pm
- Room: 32-D46
- Course website: http://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/24/sp20/24.979/
24.964 Topics in Phonology: Sentence Prosody
- Instructors: Edward Flemming & Sabine Iatridou
- Schedule: Tuesday 10am-1pm
- Room: 32-D46
- Course website: http://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/24/sp20/24.964/
Different ways of pronouncing the same sentence can convey different messages. The properties of pronunciation that modify meaning in this way are referred to as sentence prosody. There are three components of prosody: intonational melody, prominence and phrasing. These components will be introduced through an overview of English prosody and ToBI transcription. Then we will investigate each component in more detail, exploring their phonetics and phonology, and their relationships to syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, drawing on data from a variety of languages.