Intonation and Interrogation: Tonal Structure and the Expression of a Pragmatic Function in English and Other Languages |
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alQs analysis assigned atonic accent Bolinger Bolinger's boundary tone Chapter Cherokee clitic Consider continuum contrast conventionalized declaratives delayed peak dialect distinction downdrift downstep Elephantiasis emotional strength endocentric English intonation example exocentric fact fall-rise final vowel Gussenhoven 1983 H tone H*+L Hausa high pitch high rise iconic intonation contours intonational meaning intonationally inverted L*+H Ladd level pitch lexical Liberman Lindau Lindsey Linguistics long vowel low pitch low rise Luganda marked mora morpheme morphosyntactic nuclear contours nuclear pitch nuclear tone nucleus O'Connor & Arnold optional overall Pakosz parameters pattern peak features phonetic phonology Pierrehumbert 1980 pitch accent pitch contour pitch movement pitch-accent plain fall preceding prominence raised peak ready by six relatively rise-fall s/he Selkirk semantic semantic interpretation sense speaker specific syllable tag questions terminal rise tonal choices tonal structure tone language tonic Upstep utterance utterance-length verb vowel length wh-questions word yes-no questions