Intonation, Accent and Rhythm Research in Text Theory Untersuchungen zur Texttheorie Editor Jänos S. Petöfi, Bielefeld Advisory Board Irena Bellert, Montreal Maria-Elisabeth Conte, Pavia Teun A. van Dijk, Amsterdam Wolfgang U. Dressler, Wien Peter Hartmann, Konstanz Robert Ε. Longacre, Dallas Roland Posner, Berlin Hannes Rieser, Bielefeld Volume 8 w DE G Walter de Gruyter · Berlin · New York 1984 Intonation, Accent and Rhythm Studies in Discourse Phonology Edited by Dafydd Gibbon and Helmut Richter w DE G Walter de Gruyter · Berlin · New York 1984 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: Intonation, accent, and rhythm. (Research in text theory = Untersuchungen zur Texttheorie; v. 8) Includes indexes. 1. Prosodic analysis (Linguistics) — Addresses, essays, lectures. 2. Discourse analysis — Addresses, essays, lectures. I. Gibbon, Dafydd. II. Richter, Helmut, 1935- . III. Series: Research in text theory; v. 8. P224.I5 1984 414 84-3212 CIP-Kurztitelaufnahme der Deutschen Bibliothek Intonation, accent and rhythm: studies in discourse phonology / ed. by Dafydd Gibbon and Helmut Richter. -Berlin; New York: de Gruyter, 1984. (Research in text theory; Vol. 8) ISBN 3-11-009832-6 NE: Gibbon, Dafydd [Hrsg.]; GT © Copyright 1984 by Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin 30. Printed in Germany Alle Rechte des Nachdrucks, der photomechanischen Wiedergabe, der Herstellung von Photokopien - auch auszugsweise - vorbehalten. Satz: Dörlemann-Satz GmbH & Co. KG, Lemförde Druck: Rotaprint-Druck W. Hildebrand, Berlin Bindearbeiten: Lüderitz & Bauer, Berlin CONTENTS The Authors and their Affiliations VII Dafydd Gibbon and Helmut Richter Phonology and Discourse: a Variety of Approaches 1 Janet Bing A Discourse Domain Identified by Intonation 10 L. Boves, B. L. ten Have, W. H. Vieregge Automatic Transcription of Intonation in Dutch 20 David Brazil The Intonation of Sentences Read Aloud 46 Alan Cruttenden The Relevance of Intonational Misfits 67 Anne Cutler Stress and Accent in Language Production and Understanding . . 77 Grzegorz Dogil Grammatical Prerequisites to the Analysis of Speech Style: Fast/Casual Speech 91 Anthony Fox Subordinating and Co-ordinating Intonation Structures in the Ar- ticulation of Discourse 120 Anna Fuchs 'Deaccenting' and 'Default Accent' 134 Dafydd Gibbon Intonation as an Adaptive Process 165 J. 't Hart A Phonetic Approach to Intonation: from Pitch Contours to In- tonation Patterns 193 W. Jassem, D. R. Hill, I. H. Witten Isochrony in English Speech: its Statistical Validity and Linguistic Relevance 203 Gerald Knowles Variable Strategies in Intonation 226 VI Contents Manfred Krause Recent Developments in Speech Signal Pitch Extraction 243 D. Robert Ladd English Compound Stress 253 Hans-Heinrich Lieb A Method for the Semantic Study of Syntactic Accents 267 Helmut Richter An Observation Concerning Intensity as a Predictable Feature of Intonation 283 Mitsou Ronat Logical Form and Prosodic Islands 311 Peter Winkler Interrelations Between Fundamental Frequency and Other Acous- tic Parameters of Emphatic Segments 327 Name Index 339 Subject Index 342 The Authors and their Affiliations Janet Bing Department of English, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA L. Boves Instituut voor Fonetiek, Katholieke Universiteit, Nijmegen, Netherlands David Brazil Dept. of English Language and Literature, University of Birmingham, England Alan Cruttenden Dept. of General Linguistics, University of Manchester, England Anne Cutler Medical Research Council Applied Psychology Unit, Cambridge, England Grzegorz Dogil Fakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft, Universität Bielefeld, Federal Republic of Germany Anthony Fox Dept. of Linguistics & Phonetics, University of Leeds, England VIII The Authors and their Affiliations Anna Fuchs Seminar für Deutsche Philologie, Universität Göttingen, Federal Republic of Germany Dafydd Gibbon Fakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft, Universität Bielefeld, Federal Republic of Germany Johan't Hart Instituut voor Perceptie Onderzoek, Eindhoven, Netherlands B. L. ten Have Instituut voor Fonetiek, Katholieke Universiteit, Nijmegen, Netherlands D. R. Hill Department of Acoustics, University of Calgary, Canada Wiktor Jassem Acoustic Phonetics Research Unit, Polish Academy of Science, Poznafi, Poland Gerald Knowles School of English, University of Lancaster, England Manfred Krause Technische Universität Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany D. Robert Ladd Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, England The Authors and their Affiliations Hans-Heinrich Lieb Fachbereich Germanistik, Freie Universität Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany Helmut Richter Fachbereich Germanistik, Freie Universität Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany Mitsou Ronat Centre National de Recherche Scientifiqi Paris, France Wilhelm Η. Vieregge Instituut voor Fonetiek, Katholieke Universiteit, Nijmegen, Netherlands Peter Winkler Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Konstanz, Federal Republic of Germany I. H. Witten Department of Acoustics, University of Calgary, Canada