Intonation Systems
Subtitle: A Survey of Twenty Languages
Contributors: Daniel Hirst (Editor); Albert Di Cristo (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 13, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780521395137
Subjects: Phonetics, phonology, prosody (speech); Phonetics & Phonics; Phonology And Phonetics; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language; Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines / General; Intonation (Phonetics)
First sentence: The description of the intonation of a part, that language of dialect is a particularly difficult task since intonation is paradoxically at the same time one of the most universal and one of the most language specific features of human language.