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The Communicative Value of Intonation in English » (Subsequent)

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Authors: David Brazil
ISBN-13: 9780521584579, ISBN-10: 0521584574
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: May 1997
Edition: Subsequent

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Author Biography: David Brazil

Book Synopsis

The revised edition of David Brazil's seminal work The Communicative Value of Intonation in English.

Table of Contents

Contents; Preface; Chapter 1; A preliminary sketch of the tone unit; Chapter 2; Prominence; Chapter 3; Key and Termination; Chapter 4; Tone
proclaiming and referring; Chapter 5; Tone
dominance and control; Chapter 6; Tone
questions and social elicitation; Chapter 7; The Pitch Sequence; Chapter 8; Orientation; Chapter 9; Retrospect; Appendix A; some further examples to illustrate the use of the various speaker options; Appendix B; Fundamental frequency traces of some representative tone units; List of technical terms

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