The Intonation of English Statements and Questions : A Compositional Interpretation
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
ISBN-10
0815333560
ISBN-13
9780815333562
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 1st, 1999
Print length
316 Pages
Weight
528 grams
Dimensions
22.50 x 15.40 x 2.40 cms
Product Classification:
linguistics
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This comprehensive study will be of interest to linguists in a number of fields, ranging from prosody to semantics, pragmatics and discourse analysis.
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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