Related Term(s):

• falling intonation
• intonation contour
• intonation pattern
• intonational contour
• intoneme
• nucleus₂
• rising intonation
• tone contour

Source(s):

CRYSTAL 200171
TRASK 1996279
MARTINET 196233-34 (melodic curve)
PALMATIER 197277 (= intonation)
MARTINET 1964[trans.]30 (melodic curve)
NASH 1968182
MacKay 1989154
ELL5107

• CRYSTAL, David. (2001) A Dictionary of Language, 2nd Ed Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• TRASK, R. L. (1996) A Dictionary of Phonetics and Phonology. London: Routledge. 
• MARTINET, André. (1962) A Functional View of Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• PALMATIER, Robert A. (1972) A Glossary for English Transformational Grammar. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.
• MARTINET, André. (1964 [trans.]) Elements of General Linguistics. Chicago: University of Chicago. 
• NASH, Rose. (1968) Multilingual Lexicon of Linguistics and Philology: English, Russian, German, French. Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami Press. 
• MACKAY, Ian. (1989) Phonetics and Speech Science. A Bilingual Dictionary. Dictionnaire Bilingue de la Phonétique et des Sciences de la Parole. New York/Bern: Peter Lang.
• The Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics. (1994) Oxford: Pergamon Press.

Domain:

Phonology