The prosody or Mandarin Chinese

Berkeley, University of California Press, 1989. — 95 p. — ISBN 0-520-09750-5Intonation is not a single feature of language, but rather a complex of linguistic and paralinguistic features. These features are not acquired simultaneously, because their mastery requires an integration of grammatical, attitudinal, and social Factors.
In the previous work concerning the analysis and description of the intonation of MC, it seems to me that there exist three problems: (1) imperfect investigation methods, (2) confusion of multiple uses of pitch, and (3) inaccurate assumptions about intonation makeup,