A Handbook of English Intonation

Frontmatter......Page 1
Preface.......Page 6
CONTENTS.......Page 7
Phonetic Symbols used.......Page 9
Gramophone Records.......Page 10
Intonation.......Page 11
Method of Indicating Intonation.......Page 12
Connection between Stress and Intonation......Page 13
I. Tune I.......Page 14
Rhythm.......Page 17
Further Analysis of Tune I. to show Its application to shorter sentences......Page 18
Use of Tune I.......Page 19
a) Simplest kind of statement (word, phrase or sentence).......Page 21
b) Questions requiring an answer other than "yes" and "no"......Page 24
c) Commands.......Page 26
d) Exclamations.......Page 27
Method of Treating Long Groups.......Page 28
II. Tune II.......Page 29
Use of Tune II.......Page 30
a) Sentences in which something is implied.......Page 32
b) Questions to which the answer may be "yes"or "no."......Page 33
c) Requests.......Page 34
III. Sentences containing more than one sense group.......Page 35
b). Tune II. followed by Tune I.......Page 36
The Treatment of Parentheses.......Page 37
a) Tune I. repeated......Page 40
b) Tune I repeated more than once.......Page 42
c) Tune II followed by Tune I......Page 43
d) Tune II. followed by Tune I. (more than two groups).......Page 44
e) Tune I followed by Tune II......Page 45
IV. Longer sentences and connected texts involving the use of the two unemphatic intonations.......Page 46
B. Emphatic Sentences.......Page 53
I. Tune I with Intensity.......Page 54
Examples I. Tune I. with Intensity.......Page 57
II. Variation of Tune I., due to special prominence being given to one or more ideas.......Page 58
Examples IIa. a) The last-stressed word made specially prominent, the rest having normal stress and intonation.......Page 59
b) Any one word made specially prominent, the rest unstressed.......Page 61
Examples IIb. One word made specially prominent, the rest unstressed......Page 62
Examples IIc. Two or more words made specially prominent, the rest unstressed.......Page 64
Tune I. unemphatic:......Page 65
III. Variation of Tune II., due to special prominence being given to one or more ideas.......Page 66
Examples IIIa. a) One non-final word emphasised......Page 68
Examples IIIb......Page 71
Examples IIIc.......Page 72
d) Last stressed word emphasised (in addition to one or more others):......Page 73
I) FaII-rise spread over a number of syIIabIes.......Page 75
II) Fall-rise spread over two syllables.......Page 76
III) Fall-rise compressed into one syllable ending in a voiced sound......Page 77
IV. Emphatic Tunes I. and II. with Additional Emphasis.......Page 79
I. Rise-level.......Page 80
II. Rise-fall.......Page 81
III. ¨Rise-fall-rise.......Page 82
V. Sentences containing more than one sense-group.......Page 84
VI. Longer sentences and connected texts involving the use of both tunes with and without emphasis.......Page 85
a) Simplest kind of statement (word, phrase, or sentence).......Page 103
b) Questions requiring answers other than ''yes" or "no".......Page 105
c) Commands.......Page 106
a) Sentences in which something is implied.......Page 107
c) Requests.......Page 108
a) Tune I. Repeated.......Page 109
c) Tune ll. followed by Tune I.......Page 110
e) Tune I. followed by Tune II.......Page 111
Longer sentences and connected texts involving the use of the two unemphatic intonations.......Page 112
Examples I. Tune I. with Intensity.......Page 116
Examples IIa. The last stressed word made specially prominent, the rest having normal stress and intonation......Page 117
Examples IIb. One word made specially prominent, the rest unstressed......Page 118
Examples IIIa. a) One non-final word emphasised.......Page 119
I. Fall-rise spread over a number of syllables.......Page 121
III. Fall-rise compressed into one syllable ending in voiced sound.......Page 122
I. Rise-level.......Page 123
III. Rise-fall-rise.......Page 124
Longer sentences and connected texts involving both tunes with and without emphasis.......Page 125
The Little Queen.......Page 133
After the Theatre.......Page 134