English intonation

An introduction

John Wells
University College London

A textbook now in the hands of the publisher
Publication expected 2006

• Prelims, Table of contents
• Chapter One: Introduction
• Chapter Two: Tone: ups and downs
  

  part 1 Fall, rise and fall-rise; statements
  part 2 Questions; other sentence-types
  part 3 Sequences of tones

• Chapter Three: Tonicity: where does the nucleus go?

  part 1 Basic principles; the old and the new
  part 2 Focus
  part 3 Nucleus on a function word; final but not nuclear;
  part 4 Phrasal verbs; nucleus on last noun; highlighting old material; what is known?

• Chapter Four: Tonality: chunking
• Chapter Five: Beyond the three Ts
• Chapter Six: Putting it all together
• Key to exercises
• from the accompanying CD: sound clip 1.4 (contents)

2005 03 23 last modified 2006 07 17