Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

  I. General Introduction and Review of Past Work

1. Segmentation and the Taxonomy of Intonation, 2. The Two Major Traditions of Analysis, 3. Sentence Stress, 4. Intonation, 5. Stress, 6. Summary and Implications

 II. Evidence for the Rhythmic Nature of Prominence

1. Rhythmic Cues in the Accent Analyses, 2. Experimental Evidence for the Rhythm Hypothesis, 3. Difficulties with Sentence Stress in the Accent Analyses

III. The Phonology of Deaccenting

1. The Concept of Relations, 2. The Relational Nature of Deaccenting, 3. Pretonic Accent and Deaccenting

IV. The Grammar of Accent Placement

1. Syntactic vs. Semantic Approaches, 2. ‘Normal Stress’ and Focus, 3. Default Accent, 4. Degrees of Accentability, 5. Semantics of Deaccenting, 6. Summary

  V. Paralanguage and Gradience

1. The Problem, 2. Contrast vs. Paralanguage: Three Approaches, 3. Gradience, 4. The Investigator’s Task

 VI. Around the Edge of Language?

1. Central vs. Peripheral, 2. The Expression of Speaker’s Attitude, 3. Intonation and Emotion, 4. Instrumental Phonetics and Intonation, 5. A Phonological Analogy

 VII. Intonation and Grammar

1. The Role of Intonation: Two Approaches, 2. The Intonational Lexicon, 3. Preliminaries to the Analysis of Fall-Rise, 4. A Semantic Analysis of Fall-Rise, 5. Intonation and Phrasing

VIII.  Stylized Tones and the Phonology of Intonation

1. The Calling Contour, 2. Stylized Fall, 3. Stylized Rises, 4. The Phonology of Intonation

  IX. Intonation and Phonesthesia

   X. Conclusion

Notes

References

Name Index

Subject Index