Nordic Prosody Proceedings of the Ixth Conferrence, Lund 2004

This volume contains the revised texts of the papers given at the ninth Nordic Prosody conference, held at Lund University, Sweden, in August 2004. The twenty-six contributions cover a wide range of aspects of Nordic prosody including not only Scandinavian languages and dialects - Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish - but also of related languages: Estonian, Russian, and Orkney and Shetland dialects of English. The papers can be divided into the following themes: accentuation from phonetic or phonological starting-points, prosody from general linguistic perspectives, both grammar and pragmatics, prosody modelling for human - machine interaction, and other phonetic aspects of prosody including quantity.Bruce, Gosta is the author of 'Nordic Prosody Proceedings of the Ixth Conferrence, Lund 2004', published 2006 under ISBN 9780820477091 and ISBN 0820477095.