The American Four-Level Analysis of Intonation Contours
Historical postscript
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3955404 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D Robert Ladd (University of Edinburgh, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 119-137 |
| Publication date | 2015-05-29 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Historiographia Linguistica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0302-5160 • E-ISSN: 1569-9781 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/hl.42.1.07lad |
| OpenAlex | W938521455 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 24 |
The four-level analysis of English intonation prevalent in American structuralist work from the mid-1940s to the late 1960s is variably credited to 1945 publications by both Kenneth Lee Pike (1912-2000) and Rulon S. Wells (1919-2008). However, Pike's work was the basis of published language teaching materials as early as 1942. The author reports a brief correspondence with Pike in 1989, which makes clear that Pike felt that his own contribution was underappreciated in the "intellectual climate" of Bloomfieldian linguistics. Bernard Bloch (1907-1965) and especially George L. Trager (1906-1992) appear to have influenced the reception of Pike's work and to have overstated the credit due to Wells
Art · Art history · George (robot · Intonation (linguistics · Linguistics · Literature · Musical · Pike · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy
Intonational Phonology
The intonation of American English
Prosodic Systems and Intonation in English
Prosodic Systems and Intonation in English
The Groundwork of English Intonation
Linguistic Concepts
The Current Discrepancy between Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
Question Melodies in American English
American English Intonation
A Theory of Pitch Accent in English
Intonation
Grammatical Prerequisites to Phonemic Analysis
Intonation and Analysis
On stress-timing in English phonology
A Course in Modern Linguistics
Getting the word out
Immediate Constituents
Ideology and Linguistic Theory
An Outline of English Structure
The Pitch Phonemes of English
Phonemics
An Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |