Intonation of English Statements and Questions
Taylor & Francis

Intonation of English Statements and Questions

Edition: 1st Edition
Subjects: Literature, Literature: history & criticism
ISBN13: 9781138973220
Published: 24 Nov 2015

Format - Paperback / softback
By Christine Bartels

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Intonation of English Statements and Questions

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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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