Intonation Systems

Intonation Systems

A Survey of Twenty Languages

Herausgeber: Hirst, Daniel; Cristo, Albert Di; Di Cristo, Albert
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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 tr...