- Paperback: 500 pages
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press (10 Dec 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 052139550X
- ISBN-13: 978-0521395502
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.2 x 4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,372,363 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'The interaction of the contributions draws a clear and comprehensive picture of how intonation works, what seems to be universal and what liberties a specific dialect has.' The Linguist
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This is the first comprehensive study of the intonation of different languages of the world, written by a team of leading scholars in the field, most of whom are native speakers of the language in question and who live or work in that country. Surveying intonation of twenty languages, the volume describes how, paradoxically, every language possesses intonation, yet the specific features of a speaker's intonation system are also highly dependent on the language, the dialect, and even the style, the mood and the attitude of the speaker. The volume introduces a new system for the multi-lingual transcription of intonation patterns. The chapters are organised following the same general outline to highlight the differences between languages. The emphasis is on description and comparison, rather than on theory, making this an invaluable sourcebook for researchers in the field.
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The description of the intonation of a part, that language of dialect is a particularly difficult task since intonation is paradoxically at the same time one of the most universal and one of the most language specific features of human language. Read the first page
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