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.

Author: Carlos Gussenhoven
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 08/23/2004
Pages: 382
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.36lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.02w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9780521012003

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

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