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palgrave.com>Title: Intonation and Stress Subtitle: Evidence from Hungarian Publication Year: 2002 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgrave.com Author: Varga L�szl� Hardback: ISBN: 0333973704, Pages: 248, Price: 47.50 Abstract: This is the first comprehensive account of Hungarian stress and intonation to appear in English. The emphasis is on description, but a large number of theoretical issues are also dealt with in an original way. Hungarian is a Uralic or Finno-Agric language spoken by over thirteen million people in Central Europe. The study of its stress and intonation will be of special interest to intonationists, phonologists, Hungarian language specialists, and their students at intermediate level and above. CONTENTS: List of Tables -List of Intonational Transcription Symbols -Other Symbols and Abbreviations -Hungarian Letters-to-Sound Correspondence -Introduction -PART I: INTONATION - Intonation, Paralanguage, Prosody - A Taxonomic Analysis of Hungarian Intonation -An Autosegmental Analysis of Hungarian Intonation -The Melodic Segmentation of Hungarian Utterances -PART II: STRESS - Stress in Hungarian Words, Phrases, and Sentences -Rhythmical Variation in Phrasal Compounds -Rhythmical Secondary Stresses -Summary and Conclusions -Notes -References -Subject Index ABOUT THE AUTHOR L�SZL� VARGA is Professor of Linguistics at the English Linguistics Department at E�tv�s Lor�nd University, Budapest, and a well-known scholar of Hungarian intonation. To order this book or to browse our fully searchable on-line catalogue, please visit our website at http://www.palgrave.com Lingfield(s): Language Description Subject Language(s): Hungarian (Language Code: HNG) Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue