1. Introduction; 2. Tone: going up and going down; 3. Tonicity: where does the nucleus go?; 4. Tonality: chunking, or division into IPs; 5. Beyond the three Ts; 6. Putting it all together.
An introduction to intonation - the expression of meaning through rise and fall of pitch in our voices - in English.
J. C. Wells is Professor of Phonetics in the Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London.
' … an outstanding basis for courses on English intonation … can be highly recommended for individual study, or as accompaniment to a course on English pronunciation.' Journal of the International Phonetic Association
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