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9 - Tones and Intonation

from Part II - The Higher Prosodic Constituents: Prosodic Words, Prosodic Phrases and Intonation Phrases

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2025

Caroline Féry
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Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Am Main
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Chapter 9 addresses intonation, the tonal melody that contributes to the interface between phonology, on the one hand, and syntax and semantics, on the other. It is shown how the φ-phrase and the ι-phrase are identified not only by their phrasing and their metrical structure but also by their tonal structure. These high-level constituents are the domains of assignment of intonational tones associated with stressed syllables and edges of φ-phrases and ι-phrases (i.e., pitch accents, phrasal tones and boundary tones). These tones form melodic tunes that deliver not only grammatical information but also pragmatic and so-called “paralinguistic” meanings.

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German Phonology
An Optimality-Theoretic Approach
, pp. 388 - 427
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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  • Tones and Intonation
  • Caroline Féry, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Am Main
  • Book: German Phonology
  • Online publication: 04 January 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009277976.010
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  • Caroline Féry, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Am Main
  • Book: German Phonology
  • Online publication: 04 January 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009277976.010
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  • Tones and Intonation
  • Caroline Féry, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Am Main
  • Book: German Phonology
  • Online publication: 04 January 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009277976.010
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