1. English Intonation

2. Intonation
• What is intonation?
• Prosodic features
- pitch
- loudness
- speed
- rhythm
- stress (even stress, homographs, etc)
- tone

3. • Tone
- Tone languages
• Three T’s of Intonation
- Tonality
- Tonicity
- Tone

4. Functions of intonation (Wells)
- Attitudinal
- Grammatical
- Focusing (accentual, informational)
- Discourse (cohesive)
- Psychological
- Indexical

5. Tones
- Fall
- Rise
- Fall-rise
- Rise-fall

6. Type of tones
• - statements
- Declarative questions
- Wh questions
- Yes-No questions
- Tag questions
- Checking
- pardon question
- echo question

7. - exclamations
- Commands (Negative too)
- Warnings
- Interjections and greetings
- Farewell
- Open and closed lists
- Alternative questions

8. Tonicity
- Accenting phonetically
- Accenting pragmatically
- Onset
- On or near the end
- Content and function words
- Compound words
- phrases
- Double-stressed compounds

9. - Old and new information
- Deaccenting
- Reapeated information
- Synonyms
- hypernyms
- hyponyms
- Phrasal verbs

10. Tonality
- Intonation breaks
- Tonality and writing
- Size
- Grammar
Taken from English Intonation (2007), J.C. Wells – Cambridge University Press