The phonology of tone and intonation /
Tone and Intonation are two types of pitch variation, which are used to give shape to utterances. In this book, Carlos Gussenhoven provides an up-to-date survey of research into tone and intonation, discussing why speakers vary their pitch, what pitch variations mean, and how they are integrated int...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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Series: | Research surveys in linguistics.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Map; Tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Symbols; 1 Pitch in Humans and Machines; 2 Pitch in Language I: Stress and Intonation; 3 Pitch in Language II: Tone; 4 Intonation and Language; 5 Paralinguistics: Three Biological Codes; 6 Downtrends; 7 Tonal Structures; 8 Intonation in Optimality Theory; 9 Northern Bizkaian Basque; 10 Tokyo Japanese; 11 Scandinavian; 12 The Central Franconian Tone; 13 French; 14 English I: Phrasing and Accent Distribution; 15 English II: Tonal Structure; References; Index.