Western Linguistics Series (7) Intonation

Author: [British] Alan Cruttenden
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: The status of intonation in Chinese studies is so subtle: every Chinese scholar knows it holds extraordinary importance, but few scholars have truly delved into this issue. This is partly because intonation itself belongs to the suprasegmental category, making it difficult to grasp, and partly because we lack a theoretical methodology. Alan Cruttenden's book is a comprehensive Western monograph that explores the issue of intonation, not limited to English, but rather examines the universal characteristics of intonation. It demonstrates to us how to study abstract and elusive linguistic components under the guidance of linguistic theory, as well as how to extract theoretical principles from those abstract and elusive linguistic phenomena. This is the second edition, though more than ten years have passed since the first edition, it remains a fundamental reference in the field. It is believed that every reader will gain theoretical and methodological insights from it.