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The Phonology and Semology of Intonation in English: An Instrumental and Systemic Perspective

By David L.E. Watt

David Watt presents an extensive study of intonation and its meaning potential from a systemic functional perspective, advancing Halliday's description of intonation. Through the use of over 250 instrumentally derived illustrations of examples from original tape recordings, cited examples and recordings of casual conversations, this work contributes to a refinement of existing phonological and semantic descriptions of intonation. The wealth of illustrated pitch-tracked data makes the work accessible to linguists from a wide range of descriptive schools. In addition, the work provides an extremely useful addition to graduate and undergraduate study of intonation and discourse.

192 pages
$17.00

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