Contrastive Analysis of Intonation and Tone in Chinese and English

In English, intonation is the main research object of supra-segmental phonology, it refers to the changes of tone and pitch. English intonation is non-tone language which means the word meaning will not changed with the changing of the inde-pendent word’s tone, while Chinese is Tone language, in which tone often determinates the meaning of word, different tones are representative of different meanings. Chinese language function exerts differently in tone and intonation , and it is a bit com-plicated compared with English.