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This volume looks at how intonation varies among speakers and societies in terms of age, sex and region, how it interacts with grammar and how it has been invoked to explain certain questions of logic.

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Introduction Part I. Variation: 1. Age and sex 2. Dialect and language Part II. Intonation and Grammar: Clauses and Above: 3. Crosscurrents 4. Demarcation 5. Questions 6. Nonquestions 7. Dependent clauses and other dependencies Part III. Intonation and Grammar: Below the Clause: 8. Accent and morphology 9. Accent in higher units 10. Exclamations and interjections 11. 'Well' Part IV. Intonation and Logic: 12. Is there an intonation of 'contrast'? 13. Accent and entailment 14. accent and denial 15. An intonation of factuality? 16. A practical case: broadcast prosody Appendixes Reference matter.

Intonation and Its Uses

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      Publisher Stanford University Press
      Published 1 August 1989
      ISBN-13 9780804715355
      978-0804715355
      ISBN-10 0804715351
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      Philosophy of language

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This volume looks at how intonation varies among speakers and societies in terms of age, sex and region, how it interacts with grammar and how it has been invoked to explain certain questions of logic.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction Part I. Variation: 1. Age and sex 2. Dialect and language Part II. Intonation and Grammar: Clauses and Above: 3. Crosscurrents 4. Demarcation 5. Questions 6. Nonquestions 7. Dependent clauses and other dependencies Part III. Intonation and Grammar: Below the Clause: 8. Accent and morphology 9. Accent in higher units 10. Exclamations and interjections 11. 'Well' Part IV. Intonation and Logic: 12. Is there an intonation of 'contrast'? 13. Accent and entailment 14. accent and denial 15. An intonation of factuality? 16. A practical case: broadcast prosody Appendixes Reference matter.

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