Phonology of Tone and Intonation

Informationen zum Autor Carlos Gussenhoven is Professor and Chair of General and Experimental Phonology at the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Klappentext Tone and Intonation are two types of pitch variation! which are used to give shape to utterances. More specifically! tone encodes segments and morphemes! and intonation gives utterances a further discoursal meaning that is independent of the meanings of the words themselves. In this comprehensive survey! Carlos Gussenhoven reviews recent research into tone and intonation! discussing why speakers vary their pitch! what pitch variations mean! and how they are integrated into our grammars. His central arguments are illustrated with phonological descriptions of the tonal and intonational systems of six languages. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Biskaian 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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Carlos Gussenhoven, Carlos (Katholieke Universiteit Nijme Gussenhoven, Gussenhoven Carlos
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.07.2004
• EAN: 9780521012003
• ISBN: 978-0-521-01200-3
• Pagine: 382
• Serie: Research Surveys in Linguistics; Research Surveys in Linguistic; Research Surveys in Linguistics
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie; Phonetics, phonology