Lexicalized intonational meaning∗

Deriving Information Structure from Prosodically Marked Text with Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammars

This paper proposes a method for integrating intonation and information structure into the Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar (LTAG) formalism. The method works fully within LTAG and requires no changes or additions to the basic formalism. From the existing CCG analysis, we denote boundary tones as lexical items and pitch accents as features of lexical items. We then show how prosodically marke...

RUNNING HEAD : Intonational Phrasing 1 Intonational phrasing is constrained by meaning , not balance

Some Bibliographical References on Intonation and Intonational Meaning

Introductions to speech research and acoustic phonetics can be found in (Ladefoged, 1962; Denes and Pinson, 1973; Fry, 1979). For survey-level introductions to studies of English intonation, see (Halliday, 1967; Crystal, 1969; Crystal, 1975; Cruttenden, 1986; Couper-Kuhlen, 1986). (Ladd, 1980; Bolinger, 1986; Bolinger, 1989) also represent good introductions to studies of intonational meaning. ...

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 ...

Intonation as a Constraint on Inferential Processing

The proper role of intonation in utterance interpretation should be assessed in terms of the way that intonation interacts with other linguistic phenomena, notably with syntactic form and with grammatically encoded meaning, whether conceptual meaning of a compositional nature or procedural meaning that constrains the way in which an addressee will perform deductive inferences over conceptual re...