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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