Checklist of tone meanings

Fall

• Definitive (includes exclamatory)
  • statement
    2.5
  • exclamation
    2.17
  • wh questions
    2.12
  • answer
    2.10
  • command
    2.18
  • interjection
    2.19
• Insistent
  • yes-no question
    2.13
  • (includes tag question
    2.14
  • and elliptical question)
    2.15
• Reinforcing
  • adverbial
    2.23

Non-fall (=fall-rise or rise)

• Dependent (includes open)
  • clause or smaller element
    2.20
    ,
    2.21
    ,
    2.22
• Limiting
  • adverbial
    2.23

Fall-rise

• Implicational(includes contrastive, reservation, tentative, polite correction, partial statement, negative, warning)
  • statement
    2.6
    ,
    2.7
  • command
    2.18

Rise

• Encouraging (includes soothing)
  • statement
    2.11
  • wh question
    2.12
  • command
    2.18
• Non-supportive(includes truculent, perfunctory)
  • statement
    2.10
• Yes-no (includes pardon question, uptalk)
  • yes-no question
    2.13
  • tag question
    2.14
  • indep. ellip. question
    2.15
  • declarative question
    2.8
  • statement (uptalk)
    2.9
  • pardon question
    2.16
  • interjection
    2.10
    ,
    2.19