Intonational Meaning

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...

A Case of OCP Effects in Intonational Phonology

Assuming a set of tone-meaning mappings for English intonational phonology such as Pierrehumbert and Hirschberg (1990), certain data contain tones that would be otherwise unexpected. That is to say, we find surface representations that seem to contradict the assumption that the choice of tone target in English intonation is meaningful. Given such data, one might assume that a theory of tone-mea...