Top Results for Prosody

John Rupert Firth (1890–1960), commonly known as J. R. Firth, was a British linguist who served as the first Professor of General Linguistics at the University of London. He is best known as the leading figure of the London School of linguistics and for developing the context-of-situation approach,...

Elisabeth Selkirk is an American linguist and academic known for her extensive research in phonology. She is a foundational figure in prosodic phonology, specifically regarding the syntax-phonology interface, exploring how sentence structure influences spoken rhythm and grouping. Her work has establ...

Mary Beckman is an American linguist and professor emerita at Ohio State University whose research spans phonetics, phonology, prosody, and language acquisition. She is closely associated with the development of ToBI, a framework for transcribing intonation and prosodic structure in spoken language....

Carlos Gussenhoven is a Dutch linguist and phonologist who served as a professor at Radboud University in Nijmegen, Netherlands. He is known for his research on prosody, intonation, and tone, including his intonation model that relates phonological representations to phonetic realization. He co-auth...

D. Robert Ladd is an American-born linguist who served as a professor at the University of Edinburgh, specializing in phonetics and phonology. He is recognized in the field of linguistics for his research on prosody, specifically the structure and function of intonation in human speech. His 1996 boo...

Norvin Richards is an American linguist and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he specializes in syntactic theory. His research focuses on the interface between syntax and prosody, exploring how sentence structure influences intonation, stress, and phrasing. Richar...

Julia Hirschberg is an American computational linguist and computer scientist who currently holds a professorship at Columbia University. Before entering academia, she conducted influential research at Bell Laboratories in the field of text-to-speech synthesis and natural language processing. Her pr...

Sharon Inkelas is an American linguist who serves as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Her academic research primarily focuses on the interaction between morphology and phonology. She has made contributions to the study of reduplication and the theory of cophonologies. Inkelas i...

San Duanmu is a linguist whose research focuses on phonology, particularly the sound structure, syllables, stress, rhythm, and prosody of Chinese languages. He is associated with the University of Michigan and is the author of The Phonology of Standard Chinese, first published in 2000. His scholarsh...

Haruo Kubozono is a Japanese linguist specializing in phonetics and phonology, with particular expertise in Japanese pitch accent, prosody, and word accentuation. He has served as a professor at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL) and has conducted extensive researc...

Ellen Kaisse is an American linguist and professor emerita at the University of Washington, specializing in phonological theory and the syntax-phonology interface. Her influential 1985 work "Connected Speech: The Interaction of Syntax and Phonology" helped establish key concepts in the study of how...