J. Donald Bowen

A Comparison of the Intonation Patterns of English and Spanish

The analysis of intonation in Spanish has been handled in the past, on those relatively rare occasions when anything at all was said about it, in terms of contours.* These were only vaguely defined changes in pitch level, without a definite notion of what the pitches were, or exactly where the changes occurred. Indeed, the number of significantly different pitch levels was not even determined so that