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The origins of nucleus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2009

Alan Cruttenden
Alan Cruttenden
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Department of Linguistics, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
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Intonation has frequently been regarded by linguists as on the periphery of linguistics. The study of grammar began in the classical era (see Robins 1967) and the study of phonetics also goes back a very long way (see, for example, Allen 1953). But intonation has not figured prominently in phonetic writings (if we exclude discussion of word phenomena like Greek accent). Most bibliographies of intonation do not go further back than the twentieth century (e.g. Ladd 1979a), two exceptions being Pike (1945) and Crystal (1969). But there are sufficient early writings on various aspects of intonation to justify a new sub-branch of the history of linguistics, the history of intonology. This article seeks to inaugurate this sub-branch by tracing the origins of a central theoretical concept in modern intonation back to the seventeenth century and ultimately to the renaissance.

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Journal of the International Phonetic Association , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , July 1990 , pp. 1 - 9
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Copyright © Journal of the International Phonetic Association 1990

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