CHAPTER ONE GENERAL KNOWLESGE ON INTONATION
I Definition of Intonation
II Tone Language and Intonation Language
III Pitch Tange
IV Systems Devisde for Transcribing English Intonation
1. Armstrong & Ward's Scalar System
2. Roger kingdon's Tonetic Stress-Mark System
3. Halliday's Graphic Notation System
4. Harold E. Palmer's Tonal Indicator System
5. David Braxil's System
6. Kenneth L. Pike's System
1) The Numerical System
2) The Block System
CHAPTER TWO THE FORMS OF INTONATION
I Tone Unit
II The Components of the Tone Unit
III Kinds of Tones
1. Static Tones
2. Kinetic Tones
Tone I Falling
1)High-falling
2)Low-falling
Tone II Rising
1) High-rising
Low-rising
Tone III Falling-Rising
Tone IV Tising-Falling
Tone V Rising-Falling-Rising
IV Chinese Four Tones as Compared with Those of English
1. First Tone
2. Second Tone
3. Third Tone
4. Fourth Tone
Practice One
V Types of Nuclear Segment (Nucleus+Tail)
1. Falling Nucleus +Tail
2. Tiding Nucleus+Tail
3. Falling-Rising Nucleus+Tail
4. Rising-Falling Nucleus+Tail
5. Rising-Falling-Rising Nucleus+Tail
Practice Two
VI Types of Pre-tonic Segment
1. Pre-heak
1)normal Pre-head
2)High Pre-head
3)Low Rising Pre-head
Practice Three
2.Head
1)Normal Head
2)High or Low Even Head
3)Stepping-up Head
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CNAPTER THREE THE FUNCTIONS OF INTONATION
CHAPTER FOUR NUCLEUS PLACEMENT
CHAPTER FOVE THE MEANINGS OF NUCLEUS
CHAPTER SIX THE APPLICATIONS OF INTONATION
Anawers to Practice
Bibliography