The phonology of tone and intonation / Carlos Gussenhoven
Imprint
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c2004
Descript
xxiv, 355 p. : ill., charts ; 24 cm
CONTENT
Pitch in humans and machines -- Pitch in language I: stress and intonation -- Pitch in laguage II: tone -- Intonation and language -- Paralinguistics: three biological codes -- Downtrends -- Tonal structures -- Intonation in optimality theory -- Northern Bizkaian Basque -- Tokyo Japanese -- Scandinavian -- The central franconian tone -- French -- English I: Phrasing and accent distribution -- English II: Tonal structure