(This is the Table of Contents of English prosody: Rhythm and melody.)
Introduction
Two characteristics of English language
Prosodic hierarchy of English
Organization of the book
Part I: Word stress
Syllable
The English syllable
Single vowel sound
15 vowel phonemes of American English
Adjacent vowel letters
Semi-vowels
Consonant clusters
Consonant digraphs
Affixes and compounds
Doubled consonants
-es and -ed
Compound words
Consonants between vowels
Long vs short vowels
Syllabic consonants
Stressed syllables
Monosyllabic words
Mispronounced monosyllabic words
Two syllable words
Mispronounced two syllable words
Three syllable words
Words with more than three syllables
Secondary stress
Stress shift due to affixes
Suffix stress patterns
Stress-neutral suffixes
Stress-shifting suffixes
First syllable before the suffix
Second syllable before the suffix
Stress carrying suffixes
Stress with prefixes
Unstressed prefixes
Stressable prefixes
Stress shift in words
literal vs derived meaning
Different parts of speech
Part II: Compound word stress
Phrasal verbs
Single-stressed phrasal verbs
Stranded preposition
Stressed preposition
Double-stressed phrasal verbs
Separable Phrasal Verbs
Rhythmic stress shift
Three-part phrasal verbs
Adverb or preposition
Noun expressions
Descriptive noun phrases
Acronyms and numerals
Stress shift
Implicit contrast
Compound nouns
Types of compound nouns
Compound vs descriptive noun phrases
Gerunds vs participles
Phrasal verbs to compound nouns
Compound adjectives
Hyphens
Stress and components of compound adjectives
Stress on the first component
Stress on the second component
More than two words
The use of a singular noun form
Stress shift
Part III: Rhythmic stress
English, a stress-timed language
Sentence stress
Content words vs function words
Priority of nouns
Unstressed content words
Stressed function words
Rhythm unit
The poetic foot
Isochrony
Grouping into rhythm units
Manners of regulating rhythm
Rhythmic stress deletion
Rhythmic stress shift
Rhythmic vowel clipping
Vowel reduction
Elision
Syllable elision
Phoneme dropping in function words
Syllabic consonants
Contractions
Part IV: Focus word stress
Thought group
Pausing and change of meaning
Thought grouping
Rules of pausing
No pause
Pause necessary
Introductory phrase
Equally weighted items
Restrictive vs nonrestrictive modifiers
Focus word
Focus word and meaning
Default place for focus words
Default focus words
Non-default focus words
For emphasis
For contrast
Implicit contrast
Marked negatives
Contrastive stress shift
Pitch contour
Nuclear syllable and tonic stress
Pitch contour
Elements of the thought group
Pre-head
Head
Tail
Part V: Sentence Intonation
English, an intonation language
Pitch, tone and intonation
Strong intonation needed
Intonation patterns
Terminal tone
Combining intonation units
Falling intonation
Falling-falling intonation
Rising-falling Intonation
Rising intonation
Rising-rising intonation
Falling-rising intonation
Degrees of rise or fall
Four pitch levels
Degrees of rise
Beginning pitch level
Sarcasm
Yes-no question
Rhetorical questions
Degrees of fall
Mid fall
Conversational implicatures
Steep fall
Parenthetical remarks
American vs British intonation
Intonation and its function
Grammar function
Attitude function
Context function
New vs old information
High vs low content