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Intonation: Emotion vs. Grammar

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Intonation and its uses. By DwightBolinger. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1989. Pp. xi, 470. Cloth $45.00.

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D. Robert Ladd
D. Robert Ladd*
Affiliation:
Vniversity of Edinburgh
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Department of Linguistics, University of Edinburgh, Adam Ferguson Building Edinburgh, EH8 9LL UK
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Language , Volume 66 , Issue 4 , December 1990 , pp. 806 - 816
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Copyright © 1990 by Linguistic Society of America

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