A Comparative Study of English and Chinese Tonal Phonology - English Doctoral Library of the PLA University of Foreign Languages

Author: Chen Long
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Publish Date: 2006-02-01
Features: Intonation is an important linguistic phenomenon in verbal communication, containing rich linguistic, paralinguistic, and nonverbal information. In this book, the author discusses the main issues remaining in the phonological research of English and Chinese intonation from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Based on this, the author proposes their own insights into the structure and representation of English and Chinese intonational phonology and provides a systematic comparison of their similarities and differences.
Regarding the different research statuses of English and Chinese intonational phonology, this book adopts different research methods for English and Chinese intonation. The study of English intonation primarily focuses on revising the existing English intonation representation system through theoretical analysis combined with the observation of actual linguistic data. The research on Chinese intonation, on the other hand, explores the main issues in current studies through phonetic experiments, auditory discrimination experiments, and corpus observation.
The systematic structural conclusions of English and Chinese intonation, especially the acoustic manifestations of Chinese high events in this book, advance the in-depth study of English and Chinese intonation and offer certain reference significance for intonation teaching and speech engineering.