Tone and Intonation are two types of pitch variation, which are used by speakers of all
languages in order to give shape to utterances. More specifically, tone encodes segments …

" It's not what she said, it's the way that she said it," is a complaint we have all heard (or
made) some time or another. What does it refer to? It obviously relates to the various forms of …

This dissertation, first published in 1980, is concerned with the role of the syllable in
generative grammar. Kahn argues that the syllable is a necessary element in phonological …

The present study investigates how focus is phonetically realized in declarative sentences in
American English. The goal is to test the hypotheses that,(a) focus is manifested in parallel …

The book is a revised version of my Ph. D. dissertation, completed in 1998 at the University
of Frankfurt am Main. The aim of the present work is to investigate the impact of focus and …

A new model of intonational phonology is here developed, based primarily on the'tone
sequence'approaches of Bruce & Gårding 1978 and Pierrehumbert 1980. As in those works …

This book addresses students and researchers of both phonetics and phonology, and the
semantics and pragmatics of discourse. It employs an autosegmental-metrical model of …

The theoretical construct “starred tone” is assumed without comment in virtually all
autosegmental analyses of intonation. The notation on which this idea is based—the …

" In this study, suprasegmental feature!(pitch, stress, jimelure) have not been seriously
considered. Ultimately of course, these phenomena must be incorporated into any full …

Intonation Units Revisited. Cesuras in talk-in-interaction Page 1 Intonation Units Revisited
Cesuras in talk-in-interaction John Benjamins Publishing Company Dagmar Barth-Weingarten …