Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Bookended Narrow Pitch Regions
- 3 Downstep Constructions
- 4 Creaky Voice and Its Functions
- 5 Perspectives on Prosody
- 6 Late Pitch Peak and Its Functions
- 7 Expressing Positive Assessments
- 8 Superposition
- 9 A Big-Data Approach
- 10 From Patterns to Meanings
- 11 Turn-Taking Constructions
- 12 Topic Management Constructions
- 13 Stance-Related Constructions
- 14 The Rest of English Prosody
- 15 Envoi
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Author Index
- Subject Index
3 - Downstep Constructions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 March 2019
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Bookended Narrow Pitch Regions
- 3 Downstep Constructions
- 4 Creaky Voice and Its Functions
- 5 Perspectives on Prosody
- 6 Late Pitch Peak and Its Functions
- 7 Expressing Positive Assessments
- 8 Superposition
- 9 A Big-Data Approach
- 10 From Patterns to Meanings
- 11 Turn-Taking Constructions
- 12 Topic Management Constructions
- 13 Stance-Related Constructions
- 14 The Rest of English Prosody
- 15 Envoi
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Prosodic Patterns in English Conversation , pp. 25 - 45Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019