Intonation

This updated edition remains the basic reference book for all these concerned with speech in any way.

Alan Cruttenden (Author)

9780521591829, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 13 October 1997

220 pages
23.6 x 15.7 x 1.9 cm, 0.48 kg

When originally published in 1986, this book was the first to survey intonation in all its aspects, both in English and universally. In this updated edition, while the basic descriptive facts of the form and use of intonation are presented in the British nuclear tone tradition, there is nevertheless extensive comparison with other theoretical frameworks, in particular with the ToBI framework, which has become widespread in the United States. In this new edition Alan Cruttenden has expanded the sections on historical background, different theoretical approaches and sociolinguistic variation. After introductory chapters on the physiology and acoustics of pitch, he describes in detail the forms and functions of intonation in English and discusses the sociolinguistic and dialectal variations in intonation. The concluding chapter provides an overview of the state of the art in intonational studies.

Acknowledgements
Preface
Transcriptions
1. Preliminaries
2. Stress, accent, and rhythm
3. The forms of intonation
4. The functions of intonation
5. Comparative intonation
6. Conspectus
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Linguistics [CF]