In American English (AE) intonation, the pitch pattern in the final region of a prosodic phrase
conveys pragmatic meaning. The phonological analysis of the system proposed in …

The present study tests a prediction from the prevalent Autosegmental-Metrical (AM) model
of American English intonation: the existence of distinct phonological contrasts among …

Title description Discover the intricate dynamics of L2 prosody with this pioneering study,
which examines how advanced learners from Czech, German, and Spanish backgrounds …

This study explores downstep** in Mainstream US English using three experiments.
Experiment 1 investigated if downstep was associated with accessible referents. Pairs of …

This article investigates intonation's place in what Sarah Bunin Benor calls the American
Jewish English repertoire, a collection of features that speakers can use to index Jewish …

Predicates within many conceptual classes are intuited as mutually exclusive. Based on
these predicates' interaction with logical vocabulary like and or also, however, this paper …

This study tests the division of labor in the meaning conveyed by pitch accents and edge
tones in English intonation. In three perception studies, we investigate where the locus of the …

The topic of this paper is a striking intonation contour which is found in English on Croker
Island, NT, Australia, which is labelled Linear Lengthening Intonation. This contour is …

There is an ongoing debate regarding how imperatives convey speaker endorsement. One
line of approach builds it into the imperative meaning. Another posits weaker meanings …

This chapter gives an overview of experimental approaches to testing questions about
English—the language, but more accurately, its speakers. I first give a summary of key terms …