Western Linguistics Series (7)_Intonation

Author: [British] Alan Cruttenden
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Publishing 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 the first comprehensive monograph in the West 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, and how to extract theoretical principles from those abstract and elusive linguistic phenomena. This is the second edition, although more than ten years have passed since the first edition was published, it remains a fundamental reference book in this field. It is believed that every reader will gain theoretical and methodological inspiration from it.