THE ASPECTS AND COMPONENTS OF INTONATION

The rules for assigning phrasal intonation to sentences are assumed to require an autonomous level of intonational structure as opposed to what is usually viewed as surface syntactic structure. This article discusses not only the intonational structure but the aspects and components of intonation. Intonation is a feature of pronunciation that is common to all languages, and as with other features of pronunciation, intonation has more to do with how we say things than what we say