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The Intonation of English Statements and Questions: A Compositional Interpretation

The Intonation of English Statements and Questions: A Compositional Interpretation

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Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

Linguistics

ISBN10: 113897322X
ISBN13: 9781138973220
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 24 2015
Pages: 316
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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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