Chapter 1 Introduction 1
Chapter 2 Intonation Studies Before the 19th Century 6
2.1 John Hart 6
2.2 Charles Butler 8
2.3 Joshua Steele 9
Chapter 3 Early Period:Henry Sweet and Daniel Jones 12
3.1 Henry Sweet 13
3.1.1 Intonation in English syntax 16
3.1.2 Sentence-tone vs.word-tone 18
3.2 Daniel Jones 20
3.2.1 Daniel Jones,Intonation Curves(1909) 21
Chapter 4 Development Period:Palmer,Armstrong and Ward 26
4.1 Introduction 26
4.2 Palmer's descriptions of intonation 27
4.3 Palmer's system of intonation 29
4.3.1 Palmer's four tone-groups 31
4.3.2 Palmer's six tone-patterns 38
4.4 Armstrong & Ward,Handbook of English Intonation(1931) 42
4.4.1 Introduction 42
4.4.2 Armstrong & Ward's two English intonation tunes 45
4.4.3 Combination of the two tunes 49
4.4.4 Emphatic intonation 51
Chapter 5 Roger Kingdon 55
5.1 Introduction 55
5.2 Tone patterns 56
5.2.1 The kinetic tones 58
5.2.2 The static tones 62
5.3 The constituent parts of tone structure 63
5.4 Intonation notation 66
Chapter 6 O'Connor and Arnold 70
6.1 Introduction 70
6.2 The structure of intonation 73
6.3 The ten tone groups 77
6.4 Intonation and attitude 79
Chapter 7 M.A.K. Halliday's Intonation System 82
7.1 Masterworks of Halliday 82
7.2 The structure of tone group 85
7.3 Tonality,tonicity and tone 86
Chapter 8 D.Brazil et al's Contributions in Intonation Study 94
8.1 The structure of the tone unit 95
8.2 Tone 96
8.3 Key and termination 99
Chapter 9 Conclusion 103
Bibliography 114
Index 124