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The tones of English and French

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2009

Marie-Madeleine Kenning
Marie-Madeleine Kenning
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(University of East Anglia, Norwich)
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In a previous article (Kenning, 1979) I presented a description of French intonation within a similar framework to that used by Halliday (1967, 1970) and El-Menoufy (1969) in their studies of English intonation. In the present paper I want to compare English and French with regard to the third set of choices recognized by the studies: TONAL choices. After a few general remarks I shall discuss first the shapes and meanings of the formal categories called tones, then the way in which these categories are expounded phonetically.

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Journal of the International Phonetic Association , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , June 1983 , pp. 32 - 48
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Copyright © Journal of the International Phonetic Association 1983

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