Experiments in Comparative Intonation: A Case Study of English and German (Linguistische Arbeiten)

✍ Scribed by Michael Scuffil

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 304
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten [Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality linguistic studies from all the central areas of general linguistics and the linguistics of individual languages which address topical questions, discuss new data and advance the development of linguistic theory.

✦ Table of Contents

EXPLANATION OF SYMBOLS
PREFACE
1. AIMS AND SCOPE OF THE INVESTIGATION
2. INTONATIONAL THEORY
2.1. Intonation in Linguistics
2.2. Towards a Definition of Intonation
2.3. Intonational Functions and the Nature of Intonational Meaning
2.4. Units of Analysis
2.5. Tunes
2.6. Terminology and Notation
3. GERMAN INTONATION: A SURVEY
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Some Descriptions
3.3. Summary
4. CONTRASTIVE STUDIES IN GERMAN AND ENGLISH INTONATION
4.1. A Survey of Existing Studies
4.2. Concepts in Contrastive Linguistic Studies
4.3. General Hypotheses
4.4. Detailed Analyses and Hypotheses
5. EMPIRICAL STUDIES IN INTONOLOGY
5.1. The Status of Empirical Procedure in Linguistics
5.2. The Status of Empirical Studies in Intonology
5.3. Experimental Studies in Intonation
5.4. Experiments Relating to the Functions of Intonation
5.5. Summary
6. THE PRESENT EXPERIMENT: Design and Execution
6.1. Methodological Considerations
6.2. The Conduct of the Experiments
7. REPORT AND DISCUSSION
7.1. Overview
7.2. Report and Discussion of Individual Experiments
8. CONCLUSION
8.1. Range and Adequacy of the Experiments
8.2. The Results and their Interpretation
8.3. Further Research
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