Book: Intonation in the Grammar of English
Chapter: 4 The linguistic environment of intonation
Blurb:
In this chapter we shift our angle of vision so as to foreground the meanings rather than the sounds. The authors remain concerned mainly with those meanings that are, at least in part, realized by choices in intonation. But first they try to show how the meanings themselves are organized as systems of choice, and how meanings that are realized prosodically fit in to the general picture of the semantics and grammar of English.