The Phonology of Tone and Intonation

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.

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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The Phonology of Tone and Intonation

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