ENGLISH

The Phonology of Tone and Intonation (Research Surveys in Linguistics)

By CARLOS GUSSENHOVEN

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2004
ISBN
0521812658
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4394478 bytes)
Pages
380\381
Library
mirknig.com
Time added
2012-06-19 17:00:00

Description

Using examples from a wide variety of languages, this book reveals why speakers vary their pitch, what these variations mean, and how they are integrated into our grammars. All languages use modulations in pitch to form utterances. Pitch modulation encodes lexical tone to signal boundaries between morphemes or words, and encodes intonation to give words and sentences an additional meaning that isnt part of their original sense.

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