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Peer reviewedSteedman, Mark – Language, 1991
Argues that English intonational structure and surface syntactic structure are one and can be captured in a single unified grammar. The interpretations that the grammar provides for such constituents corresponds to the entities and open propositions of intonational meaning that have been described as "theme" and "rheme,""given" and "new," and…
Descriptors: English, Grammar, Intonation, Linguistic Theory
Peer reviewedVanderslice, Ralph; Ladefoged, Peter – Language, 1972
Abbreviated version of this paper was read under the title Nuclear Accent and Intonation Rules of English'' at the 1970 summer meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, in Columbus, Ohio, and an interim version appeared in UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics'' (1971). (VM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), English, Intonation
Peer reviewedBerman, Arlene; Szamosi, Michael – Language, 1972
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Intonation
Peer reviewedLakoff, George – Language, 1972
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Environmental Influences
Peer reviewedBresnan, Joan W. – Language, 1972
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Intonation
