The Phonology of Tone and Intonation (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521812658)

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.

Author: Carlos Gussenhoven
ISBN-10: 0521812658
ISBN-13: 9780521812658
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2004
Pages: 380
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.00w x 1.40d