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

Routledge, 2013. — 317 p. — (Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics). — ISBN 0815333560, 9780815333562.Intonational Meaning: Delineating the Task Choice of Empirical Domain
Defining ‘Statement’ and ‘Question’
Structure of the Presentation
Notes
Intonational Structure In English
The Phonological Model
Transcription Conventions
Notes
Figures
Statements
Statement Intonation
The Meaning of L-: Defining Assertiveness
The Non-attitudinal Approach
The Speaker-Oriented Attitudinal Approach
The Interactive Attitudinal Approach
A Stalnakerian Model of Assertiveness
Comparison with Pierrehumbert and Hirschberg (1990)
The Meaning of Boundary Tones
‘Potential Discourse Finality’ vs ‘Continuation
Dependence’
Context-Dependent Semantic Effects
Distributional Overlap
Tones Representing Meaning: A Formal ProposalNotes
Alternative Questions
The Intonation of Alternative Questions
The Meaning of Final L- in Alternative Questions
Alternative-Propositions
Extending the Stalnakerian Model to
Alternative Questions
Nonfinal Phrase Accents
Boundary Tones in Alternative Questions
Excursus: The Effects of Pitch Accent Sequence and Prosodic Phrasing in Disjunctive Questions
Pitch Accent Sequences
Prosodic Phrasing
Tones Representing Meaning in Alternative QuestionsNotes
Yes-No Questions
The Intonation of Yes-No Questions
Rising Patterns
Low Rise
High Rise
Fall
Fall-Rise
The Meaning of L- in Yes-No Questions
Yes-No Questions That Differ in Interpretation from Corresponding Alternative Questions: Bolinger (1978c)
Restricting the Claim: Not All Yes-No
Questions Are Unlike Alternative Questions
Extending the Model to Yes-No Questions
Boundary Tones in Yes-No Questions
Echo Questions and Discourse-Linked QuestionsNotes
Wh-Questions
The Intonation of Wh-Questions
Falling Patterns
Rising Patterns
Fall-Rises
The Meaning of L- in Wh-Questions
The Sentential Presupposition of
Wh-Questions
Assertiveness and [+WH]
Narrow-Focus Wh-Questions and Reference
Questions: Posing the Puzzle
Final H- in Wh-Questions
Non-assertive Non-echo Wh-Questions
Echo and Discourse-Linked Wh-Questions
Reference Questions
Boundary Tones in Wh-QuestionsNotes
Non-Interrogative Questions
The Intonation of Non-interrogative Questions
The High Rise in Non-interrogative Questions
Dialectal VariationNotes
Non-Question Interrogates
Inferentially Assertive Interrogatees
Rhetorical Interrogatives
Preserving Face: The Role of Politeness
Strategies
Didactic Stratagems
Interrogative Exclamations
Interrogative Echo Exclamations
Interrogative Directives
Boundary Tones in Non-question InterrogativesNotesA New Classification of Utterance Types
Locating Statements and Questions in the Discourse Model
Outlook