Intonation and Its Uses: Melody in Grammar and Discourse

by Dwight Bolinger

A Stanford University Press classic.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804715351
• ISBN13: 9780804715355
• Release Date: August 1989
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 484 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

good book on stylized spoken intonation

This book provides several interesting examples of American English spoken in stylized intonation. For instance, a judge might say, "Proceed" on so-mi. The writers on the subject don't identify the pitches by name, but they are recognizable for a reader with musical training. If such is true in your case, I invite you to read the books with ASIN numbers 0804715351, 0253158648, 9173460397, 0313209103, and 3631426542 and see if you don't agree that do, mi, so, and la are the tones used in American English stylized spoken intonation.