The Oxford Handbook of Language Prosody

Last month, Oxford University Press published The Oxford Handbook of Language Prosody, edited by Carlos Gussenhoven (Radboud University and National Chiao Tung Universty, Taiwan) and Aoju Chen (Utrecht University). The prosody of language is about the parts of words and sentences that are not contained in vowels and consonants: the stress tones, the word tones, the rhythm, and the intonation. The book contains 49 chapters with contributions from 135 prominent authors. It is the first overview work to deal with these aspects in conjunction for languages from all over the world.

An overview of language prosody

This handbook presents detailed accounts of current research in all aspects of language prosody, written by leading experts from different disciplines. The last four decades have seen major theoretical and empirical breakthroughs in the field, many of them informed by interdisciplinary approaches, as reflected in this volume. The volume's comprehensive coverage and multidisciplinary perspectives make it an invaluable resource for all researchers, students, and practitioners interested in prosody.