Intonation of English Statements and Questions

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A01=Christine Bartels
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Author_Christine Bartels
boundary
Boundary Tone
Category=CF
Context Set
discourse interpretation
Echo Questions
English utterance prosody research
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Existential Presupposition
Final Rise
Indirect Speech Acts
intonational phonology
Intonational Phrase
Irony Convention
Low Boundary Tone
Mutual Beliefs
nuclear
Nuclear Accent
Phonological Model
phrasal
Phrasal Intonation
Phrasal Tones
phrase
Phrase Accent
phrase-final tones
pitch
Pitch Accent
pragmatic meaning
proposition
prosodic focus
Prosodic Phrases
Question Utterance
Rise Continuation
Sentential Presupposition
Speaker Uncertainty
speech act analysis
surface
Surface Proposition
Tonal Meaning
tone
tones
Utterance Types
WHQ

Product details

  • ISBN 9780815333562
  • Weight: 476g
  • Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Apr 1999
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
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English sentence prosody provides cues to both focus structure and speaker attitude. Taking the phonological model of intonation developed by Pierrehumbert (1880 et seq.) as point of departure, this work illuminates the communicative function of English pitch contours by (1) giving a detailed survey of phrase-final contours found in statements and questions, and (2) investigating what attitudinal features determine choice of phrasal tones in these utterance types. This comprehensive study will be of interest to linguists in a number of fields, ranging from prosody to semantics, pragmatics, and discourse analysis.

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