This thesis develops a compositional account of the contribution of steeply, monotonically
rising and steeply, monotonically falling intonational tunes to the utterances they …

Rising Imperatives Page 1 Proceedings of SALT 28: 100–119, 2018 Rising Imperatives* Deniz
Rudin University of Southern California Abstract This paper provides an account of imperatives …

Imperatives are associated with a wide range of illocutions and can function as commands,
requests, offers, advice, well-wishes, etc.(Schmerling 1982). Recent work on imperatives …

Certain intonational configurations contribute highly nuanced meanings that are difficult to
capture or distill. One such intonation is the 'calling contour'in American English, which we …

Crosslinguistic work on the meanings of intonational tunes across clause types remains
rare. Rudin (2018a) notes an apparent correlation between the behavior of declarative and …

Imperatives are often uttered with a standard declarative falling contour. However, there are
several claims that they can be pronounced with different tunes, leading to different …