Intonation and Its Uses
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 1, 1989
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780340517659
Subjects: Language & Linguistics; English
First sentence: If intonation is a common fund of possibilities that each language both shares with all other languages and yet conventionalizes in its own way, within languages there are differences that depend on up-bringing, social class, age, sex, and even, in the case of trained speakers, personal choice.