The Structure of Intonational Meaning: Evidence from English

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Ladd
Keyword(s):  
Intonational Meaning

St’át'imcets intonation contours: a preliminary study

2016 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-155
Author(s):  
Marion Caldecott
Keyword(s):  
Information Structure ◽  
Northwest Coast ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Intonational Meaning ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Interior Salish

AbstractAcoustic research on the prosody and intonation of Northwest Coast languages has until recently been under-researched. This paper joins the growing body of research on the subject and reports on the results of the first study of intonation in St’át'imcets (Lillooet Salish; Northern Interior Salish). It tests the generalization proposed by Davis (2007) that information structure is not correlated with prosody in Salish languages by comparing the intonation contours of declaratives and yes/no questions. Specifically, I ask two questions: is nuclear accent rightmost? And are yes/no questions associated with higher pitch, as predicted by the Universality of Intonational Meaning? Results are comparable to those reported for other Salish languages, namely Koch (2008, 2011) on Nɬeʔkepmxcín, Jacobs (2007) on Skwxwú7mesh and Benner (2004, 2006) and Leonard (2011) on SENĆOŦEN. Nuclear accent is associated with the rightmost stressed vowel, regardless of focus, and while no speaker signals yes/no questions with a final rise, each has higher pitch within typologically common parameters.

scholarly journals Additives pitching in: L*+H signals ordered Focus alternatives

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 279
Author(s):  
Alexander Göbel
Keyword(s):  
Common Core ◽  
Relative Strength ◽  
Pitch Accent ◽  
Intonational Meaning

Approaches to the meaning of intonational meaning differ in associatingeach subcomponent with a meaning that remains invariant across contours (e.g.Pierrehumbert & Hirschberg 1990) or treating a contour as contributing its meaningholistically (e.g. Goodhue et al. 2015). This paper argues for a common core ofthe L*+H pitch accent across two intonation contours, the Rise-Fall-Rise (RFR,e.g. Ward & Hirschberg 1985), and a novel contour coined the Downscale-Contour(DSC). Both contours are analyzed as indicating the presence of an alternative withrespect to a scale derived from the QUD, but differ in the relative strength of thisalternative, with the DSC indicating a weaker and the RFR a stronger one.

scholarly journals Fall-Rise Intonation and the Place of Intonational ‘Meaning’ in Linguistic Theory

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Hirschberg ◽  
Gregory Ward
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Linguistic Theory ◽  
Intonational Meaning

Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1985), pp. 447-458

scholarly journals The dialogical dimension of intonational meaning: Evidence from French

2014 ◽  
Vol 74 ◽  
pp. 15-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristel Portes ◽  
Claire Beyssade ◽  
Amandine Michelas ◽  
Jean-Marie Marandin ◽  
Maud Champagne-Lavau
Keyword(s):  
Intonational Meaning

scholarly journals On-line interpretation of intonational meaning in L2

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 224-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bettina Braun ◽  
Lara Tagliapietra
Keyword(s):  
Intonational Meaning ◽  
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