1 DROP YOUR FOREIGN ACCENT -- 1.0 Introduction -- 1.1 The importance of intonation in speech -- 1.2 Principles of an experimental-phonetic approach -- 1.3 Aims of this study -- 1.4 Brief outline of the study -- 2 FROM TUNES TO PERCEPTUALLY RELEVANT PITCH MOVEMENTS -- 2.0 Introduction -- 2.1 The British English school -- 2.2 The American English school -- 2.3 Two recent phonological approaches to intonation -- 2.4 The Dutch school -- 2.5 A final note on the notational systems -- 2.6 Contrastive English-Dutch intonation studies -- 2.7 Concluding remarks -- 3 FIRST EXPLORATIONS -- 3.0 Introduction -- 3.1 Characteristics of the production of a non-native pronunciation of English intonation by Dutch speakers: First experiment. -- 3.2 Discrimination of Dutch and English pitch contours: Second experiment -- 3.3 Concluding remarks -- 4 PERCEPTUAL TOLERANCES OF SOME PROPERTIES OF PITCH MOVEMENTS IN ENGLISH -- 4.0 Introduction -- 4.1 The experiment -- 4.2 Results -- 4.3 Conclusions -- 4.4 Discussion -- 5 A COMPARISON OF PITCH MOVEMENTS IN ENGLISH PRODUCED BY NATIVE SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH AND OF DUTCH -- 5.0 Introduction -- 5.1 Method -- 5.2 Results -- 5.3 Discussion -- 5.4 Summary and conclusions -- 6 A PERCEPTUAL EVALUATION OF DEVIATIONS IN PITCH -- 6.0 Introduction -- 6.1 First experiment: the perceptual relevance of nine deviations -- 6.2 Second experiment: a continued search for deviations -- 6.3 Third experiment: first attempts to evaluate 'duration' -- 6.4 General discussion -- 7 PRELIMINARIES TO A COURSE IN ENGLISH INTONATION -- 7.0 Introduction -- 7.1 Method -- 7.2 Results -- 7.3 Discussion -- 8 CONCLUDING CONSIDERATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR APPLICATIONS -- 8.0 Introduction -- 8.1 General discussion of the results -- 8.2 Viewing the aims of the study -- 8.3 Suggestions for further research -- 8.4 Testing the intonation course.

8.5 Suggestions for applications -- 8.6 Some theoretical implications of a descriptive model -- 8.7 Some preliminary pronunciation precepts -- Postscript -- APPENDICES -- Appendix A: survey of stylized pitch contours (3) -- Appendix B: averaged data of pitch movement on tonic (3) -- Appendix C: raw frequency values Brighton-Crawley (4) -- Appendix D: scale valus Brighton-Crawley (4) -- Appendix E: scale values combined groups (4) -- Appendix F: dialogue used in the production test (5) -- Appendix G: averaged values of production test (5) -- Appendix H: scale values Brighton-Crawley (6) -- Appendix I: scale values combined groups (6) -- Appendix J: scale values second experiment (6) -- Appendix K: frequency count second experiment (6) -- Appendix L: survey of F0 curves of precepts test (7) -- Appendix M: acceptability scores precepts test (7) -- Summary -- References.