1. Information structuring in English dialogue class 4
Prosody
Information structuring in English dialogue
class 4

2. Prosody in dialogues Stress, Intonation, Phrasing
Physiological production
Function
Acoustic properties (phonetic correlates)

3. Intonation Physiology: Pitch height
Acoustic correlate: F0 (fundamental frequency
Function: grammatical, structuring, emotion

4. Transcription of intonation
ToBI
Pitch accents H*, L*, L*+H, !H*
Last pitch accent=nucleus
boundary tones H% L%
H* !H* H* H*L%

5. Stress Physiology: air pressure
Acoustic correlate: high intensity, high pitch, longer duration
Function: accents, focus
Transcription: ba‘nana

6. Phrasing Physiology of phrase boundary: silence
Acoustic correlates: pause, pre-pausal lengthening, pre-pausal nucleus, anacrusis
Function: information structuring
Transcription: Anna liebt | Peter aber nicht