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KMID : 0917519990060010119
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Journal of Speech Sciences
1999 Volume.6 No. 1 p.119 ~ p.143
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An Introduction to English Intonational Phonology
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Abstract
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In this paper, the development of English Intonational Phonology is introduced. The existing representation systems of intonation are largely divided into the American structuralist school and the British school, which describe intonation by means of ´levels´ and ´configurations´ respectively. Both representation systems have some theory-internal problems, however. As for the American school, there is no way to represent pitches much lower than the reference line, while the system of intonation in the British school is limited in that intonation is described in a phonetic impressionistic way rather than from a phonological perspective. Intonational Phonology, a real phonological approach, which has grown out of the basic assumptions of autosegmental-metrial(AM) theory has been suggested by Pierrehumbert(1980). In her approach, an intonational tune is made up of one or more pitch accents, followed by an obligatory phrase accent and an obligatory boundary tone, and interestingly 22 combinations are possible. Intonational Phonology has been revised from Beckman & Pierrehumbert(1986) in developing TobI(Tones & Break Indices), a proposed standard for labelling prosodic features of digital speech databases in English.
Keywords: Intonational Phonology, pitch accents, phrase accents, boundary tones
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