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The Phonology of Tone and Intonation (Research Surveys in Linguistics)
The Phonology of Tone and Intonation - Research Surveys in Linguistics
Author: Carlos Gussenhoven
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" t...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521812658
ISBN-10: 0521812658
Publication Date: 8/9/2004
Pages: 380
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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