English Intonation
An introduction
John.C.Well || Cambridge University Press
English Intonation

Table of contents

1. Introduction

2. Tone: going up and going down

Fall, rise, and fall-rise

Statements

Questions

Other sentence types

Sequences of tones

Tone meanings

3. Tonicity: Where does the nucleus go?

Basic principles

The old and the new

Focus

Nucleus on a function word

Final, but not nuclear

Phrasal verbs

Nucleus on the last noun

Accenting old material

What is known?

4. Tonality: Chunking, or division into IPs

5. Beyond the three Ts

Prenuclear patterns

Finer distinctions of tone

Non-nuclear accenting

Further considerations

5.15 Sylization

5.16 Key

6. Putting it all together

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