Intonation in English and Czech dialogues

The focus of the present study is a comparison of English and Czech intonation. Intonation studies in the two languages are based on different approaches to prosodic systems and different traditio ...

The focus of the present study is a comparison of English and Czech intonation. Intonation studies in the two languages are based on different approaches to prosodic systems and different traditions in prosodic transcription. This book, presenting a corpus-based analysis of English and Czech, draws on the traditions of both languages with a certain preference for English prosodic transcription systems. A simplified version of one of the English systems has been applied for the analysis of both English and Czech texts.