LINGUIST List 14.2146

Wed Aug 13 2003

Books: Linguistic Theories/Phonology: Gussenhoven

Editor for this issue: Marisa Ferrara <marisalinguistlist.org>

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1. jreid, The Phonology of Tone and Intonation: Gussenhoven

	
Title: The Phonology of Tone and Intonation
Series Title: Research Surveys in Linguistics
			
Publication Year: 2003
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 
 http://www.cup.org		 
			
Book URL: http://www.cup.org/linguistics
 
Author: Carlos Gussenhoven, Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen,
	Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Hardback: ISBN: 0521812658, Pages: 280, Price: $58.00
Paperback: ISBN: 0521012007, Pages: 280, Price: $21.00
			
Abstract:

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"
to give words and sentences an additional meaning that isn't part of
their original sense.

Lingfield(s): Linguistic Theories
		Phonology
	 
Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)


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