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- Title
The American Four-Level Analysis of Intonation Contours.
- Authors
Ladd, D. Robert
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
UNITED States; INTONATION (Phonetics); SPOKEN English; PIKE, Kenneth Lee; WELLS, Rulon S.; BLOCH, Bernard; TRAGER, George L.
- Publication
Historiographia Linguistica, 2015, Vol 42, Issue 1, p119
- ISSN
0302-5160
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/hl.42.1.07lad