Prosodic Patterns in English Conversation
by Nigel G. Ward, Cambridge University Press, 2019
Links to Audio Examples, by Chapter
- Introduction
- Bookended Narrow Pitch Regions
- Downstep Constructions
- Creaky Voice and its Functions
- Perspectives on Prosody (no audio examples)
- Late Pitch Peak and its Functions
- Expressing Positive Assessment
- Superposition
- Methods
- From Patterns to Meanings (no audio examples)
- Turn-Taking Constructions
- Topic Management Constructions
- Stance-Related Constructions
- The Rest of English Prosody
- Envoi
Supplementary Information: audio example provenance,
dimension plots
Related Resources for ESL teachers: Lesson Plans and Sundry
Related Information, Slides from the Kyoto JALT Workshop on
Teaching the Prosodic Constructions of Dialog,
a video