140. It is impossible, in such an elementary work as
this, to treat of all the other shades of sounds which
may be come across in the languages of the world, the
definite types of which run into three figures. The



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student who has carefully studied what has been written,
and has trained his tongue and other organs of speech
by means of the e:!fercises, at the same time keeping his
ears open to the pronunciation of those with whom he
comes in contact, should not find any great difficulty in
analysing and reproducing varieties of sound he may
come across.
CHAPTER XX.
SIGNIFICANT WORD INTONATION.
141. In Chapter XII. something has already been
said about intonation, and it has been shown how
variations of tone may modify the meaning of a sen-
tence, or even of a word, which stands as a sentence-
substitute. Such intonation may be called sentence
intonation. It may be asserted that this kind of
intonation is normal in European languages, with one
or two exceptions, as well as in the majority of syn-
thetic and analytic tongues. But when monosyllabic
(and possibly also certain agglutinative) languages are
in question, it will be found that intonation, which
is called word intonation, plays a most important

1 In Norwegian, there are tones called compound, which the
Danes, whose written language is practically identical with
Norwegian, seem to replace by ''.
