English Intonation: An Introduction » (BK&CD-ROM)

J. C. Wells is Professor of Phonetics in the Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London.

An introduction to intonation - the expression of meaning through rise and fall of pitch in our voices - in English.

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.