A Handbook of English Intonation
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Frontmatter......Page 1 Preface.......Page 6 CONTENTS.......Page 7 Phonetic Symbols used.......Page 9 Gramophone Records.......Page 10 Intonation.......Page 11 Method of Indicating Intonation.......Page 12 Connection between Stress and Intonation......Page 13 I. Tune I.......Page 14 Rhythm.......Page 17 Further Analysis of Tune I. to show Its application to shorter sentences......Page 18 Use of Tune I.......Page 19 a) Simplest kind of statement (word, phrase or sentence).......Page 21 b) Questions requiring an answer other than "yes" and "no"......Page 24 c) Commands.......Page 26 d) Exclamations.......Page 27 Method of Treating Long Groups.......Page 28 II. Tune II.......Page 29 Use of Tune II.......Page 30 a) Sentences in which something is implied.......Page 32 b) Questions to which the answer may be "yes"or "no."......Page 33 c) Requests.......Page 34 III. Sentences containing more than one sense group.......Page 35 b). Tune II. followed by Tune I.......Page 36 The Treatment of Parentheses.......Page 37 a) Tune I. repeated......Page 40 b) Tune I repeated more than once.......Page 42 c) Tune II followed by Tune I......Page 43 d) Tune II. followed by Tune I. (more than two groups).......Page 44 e) Tune I followed by Tune II......Page 45 IV. Longer sentences and connected texts involving the use of the two unemphatic intonations.......Page 46 B. Emphatic Sentences.......Page 53 I. Tune I with Intensity.......Page 54 Examples I. Tune I. with Intensity.......Page 57 II. Variation of Tune I., due to special prominence being given to one or more ideas.......Page 58 Examples IIa. a) The last-stressed word made specially prominent, the rest having normal stress and intonation.......Page 59 b) Any one word made specially prominent, the rest unstressed.......Page 61 Examples IIb. One word made specially prominent, the rest unstressed......Page 62 Examples IIc. Two or more words made specially prominent, the rest unstressed.......Page 64 Tune I. unemphatic:......Page 65 III. Variation of Tune II., due to special prominence being given to one or more ideas.......Page 66 Examples IIIa. a) One non-final word emphasised......Page 68 Examples IIIb......Page 71 Examples IIIc.......Page 72 d) Last stressed word emphasised (in addition to one or more others):......Page 73 I) FaII-rise spread over a number of syIIabIes.......Page 75 II) Fall-rise spread over two syllables.......Page 76 III) Fall-rise compressed into one syllable ending in a voiced sound......Page 77 IV. Emphatic Tunes I. and II. with Additional Emphasis.......Page 79 I. Rise-level.......Page 80 II. Rise-fall.......Page 81 III. ¨Rise-fall-rise.......Page 82 V. Sentences containing more than one sense-group.......Page 84 VI. Longer sentences and connected texts involving the use of both tunes with and without emphasis.......Page 85 a) Simplest kind of statement (word, phrase, or sentence).......Page 103 b) Questions requiring answers other than ''yes" or "no".......Page 105 c) Commands.......Page 106 a) Sentences in which something is implied.......Page 107 c) Requests.......Page 108 a) Tune I. Repeated.......Page 109 c) Tune ll. followed by Tune I.......Page 110 e) Tune I. followed by Tune II.......Page 111 Longer sentences and connected texts involving the use of the two unemphatic intonations.......Page 112 Examples I. Tune I. with Intensity.......Page 116 Examples IIa. The last stressed word made specially prominent, the rest having normal stress and intonation......Page 117 Examples IIb. One word made specially prominent, the rest unstressed......Page 118 Examples IIIa. a) One non-final word emphasised.......Page 119 I. Fall-rise spread over a number of syllables.......Page 121 III. Fall-rise compressed into one syllable ending in voiced sound.......Page 122 I. Rise-level.......Page 123 III. Rise-fall-rise.......Page 124 Longer sentences and connected texts involving both tunes with and without emphasis.......Page 125 The Little Queen.......Page 133 After the Theatre.......Page 134
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