| Lemma | intonational contour |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Martinet (1962) |
| Titolo | A Functional View of Language |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | intonational level (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | It must, in any case, be kept in mind that some prosodic features like intonational contours are not distinctive in the sense in which a phoneme is distinctive, but directly meaningful: a rising interrogative contour on 'you like it?' has about the same function as 'do' of the more traditional 'do you like it?' In other words, it might be equated with a moneme, not with a phoneme. |