English Intonation Teaching in a Perspective of Communicative Functions

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10.2991/icadce-16.2016.356How to use a DOI?

Keywords

English intonation; communicative function; phonetics teaching

Abstract

English is an intonation language while Chinese is a tone language. English intonation with some distinctive features from Chinese intonation has communicative functions that endows a speaker's utterance with various attached meanings. The complexity and subtlety of English intonation cause English teachers and learners considerable troubles. Therefore the ability to understand and use English intonation should be one of the focuses in phonetics teaching and an important criterion to measure one's language ability.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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