Table of contents
1. Introduction
1.3 Is English a tone language?
1.4 The three Ts: tone, tonicity, tonality
2. Tone: going up and going down
Fall, rise, and fall-rise
Statements
2.6 The implicational fall-rise
2.7 More about the implicational fall-rise
2.9 Uptalk
2.10 Yes, no and ellptical answers
2.11 Independent rises
Questions
2.12 Wh Questions
2.13 Yes-no questions
2.14 Tag questions
2.15 Independent elliptical questions
2.16 Checking
Other sentence types
Sequences of tones
2.20 Leading and trailing tones
2.21 Topic and comment
2.23 Adverbials
2.24 Fall plus rise
2.25 Tone concord
Tone meanings
3. Tonicity: Where does the nucleus go?
Basic principles
The old and the new
Focus
3.10 Contrastive focus
3.11 Pronouns and demonstratives
3.12 Reflexive, reciprocal and indefinite pronouns
3.13 Contrastive focus overrides other factors
3.14 Contrastive focus on polarity or tense
3.15 Dynamic focus
Nucleus on a function word
Final, but not nuclear
Phrasal verbs
Nucleus on the last noun
3.29 Final verbs and adjectives
3.30 Events
Accenting old material
What is known?
4. Tonality: Chunking, or division into IPs
4.2 Choosing the size of the chunk
4.4 Vocatives and Imprecations
4.5 Adverbials
4.7 Topics
4.10 Tag questions
5. Beyond the three Ts
Prenuclear patterns
Finer distinctions of tone
Non-nuclear accenting
5.9 Lexical stress and downgrading
5.10 Two or more lexical stresses
5.11 The focus domain
Further considerations
5.15 Sylization
5.16 Key