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The Phonology of Tone and Intonation

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The Phonology of Tone and Intonation

The Phonology of Tone and Intonation

Carlos Gussenhoven, Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands
July 2006
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    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 isn't part of their original sense.

    • Includes comprehensive and detailed analyses of the tonal and intonational systems of six languages
    • Presents an overview of the development of phonological theory since 1988, including Optimality Theoretic treatments
    • Presents a phsysiologically based theory of universal (paralinguistic) meaning of pitch variation

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    "Gussenhoven provides a well organized presentation of pitch accent, lexical tone and intonation in language in general..." --Functions of Language

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    Contents

    Table of Contents

    • 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.
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    • Carlos Gussenhoven , Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen

      Carlos Gussenhoven is Professor and Chair of General and Experimental Phonology at the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

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