Intonational meaning

Intonational Meaning

Lexicalized intonational meaning∗

They are all, of course, ambiguous and homographic, though the indeterminacy here seems not to be more extreme than in the realm of traditional lexical items. My concern is with (a few of) the uses of these items on which they mark reliable intonational and semantic effects. In particular, I aim to identify cases where they serve as windows into multidimensional content in the sense of Potts 20...

Is Intonational Meaning Compositional ?

This paper addresses the issue of the contribution of intonation to the meaning of an utterance, and more precisely of the conditions that should be met to propose a compositional approach to the meaning of intonational contours. After presenting different positions in the literature and specifying if and how much these proposals can be said compositional, we show that their differences can be ...

The Pragmatics of Intonational Meaning

Starting from Carlos Gussenhoven’s proposal Gussenhoven02 that intonational meaning be understood in terms of three biological codes, this paper suggests an augmentation of that proposal to connect human experience of these biological phenomena to the process of spoken communication. Under this scenario, the codes give rise to a set of Conversational Implicatures, similar to those defined by H....

Fine Phonetic Detail and Intonational Meaning

The development of theories about form-function relations in intonation should be informed by a better understanding of the dependencies that hold among different phonetic parameters. Fine phonetic detail encodes both linguistically structured meaning and paralinguistic meaning.