The Intonation of English Statements and Questions: A Compositional Interpretation by Bartels, Christine

The Intonation of English Statements and Questions: A Compositional Interpretation (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780815333562)

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The Intonation of English Statements and Questions: A Compositional Interpretation by Bartels, Christine

The Intonation of English Statements and Questions: A Compositional Interpretation

$190.00
The Intonation of English Statements and Questions: A Compositional Interpretation by Bartels, Christine

The Intonation of English Statements and Questions: A Compositional Interpretation

$190.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Christine Bartels
ISBN-10: 0815333560
ISBN-13: 9780815333562
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 04/01/1999
Pages: 316
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 8.81h x 5.78w x 0.90d

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