Table of Contents

Preface Alan Cruttenden; 1. A survey of intonation systems Daniel Hirst and Albert Di Cristo; 2. Intonation in American English Dwight Bolinger; 3. Intonation in British English Daniel Hirst; 4. Intonation in German Dafydd Gibbon; 5. Intonation in Dutch Johan 't Hart; 6. Intonation in Swedish Eva Gårding; 7. Intonation in Danish Nina Grønnum; 8. Intonation in Spanish Santiago Alcoba and Julio Murillo; 9. Intonation in European Portuguese Madalena Cruz-Ferreira; 10. Intonation in Brazilian Portuguese João Antônio de Moraes; 11. Intonation in French Albert Di Cristo; 12. Intonation in Italian Mario Rossi; 13. Intonation in Romanian Laurentia Dascalu-Jinga; 14. Intonation in Russian Natalia Svetozarova; 15. Intonation in Bulgarian Anastasia Misheva and Michel Nikov; 16. Intonation in Greek Antonis Botinis; 17. Intonation in Finnish Annti Iivonen; 18. Intonation in Hungarian Ivan Fónagy; 19. Intonation in Moroccan Arabic Thami Benkirane; 20. Intonation in Japanese Isamu Abe; 21. Intonation in Thai Sudaporn Luksaneeyanawin; 22. Intonation in Vietnamese Dõ The Dung, Tran Thien Huong and Georges Boulakia; 23. Intonation in Beijing Chinese Paul Kratochvil; References; Indexes.

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This 1998 book is a comprehensive study of the intonation of different languages of the world.

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'The interaction of the contributions draws a clear and comprehensive picture of how intonation works, what seems to be universal and what liberties a specific dialect has.' The Linguist