Chapter 9
Stress and tones as intensifying operators in German
Unlike the classic, most widely studied phenomena, prosody has been insufficiently investigated as form of linguistic intensification. This paper attempts to look upon some prosodic features as independent means of intensification in German. Accents, tones and contour choice may open up the possibility of distinguishing between intensified and unintensified predicates, however this differentiation cannot be described within a gradually increasing system, but it is only measurable within a bipolar, two-dimensional scale.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Intensifying from the prosodic point of view
- 3.Accents and information structure
- 3.1Pitch movements and informativity
- 4.Accents, tones and conversation structure
- 4.1Downstep
- 4.2Tonal prefixation
- 4.3Final boundary tones
- 5.Contour choice and speakers’ attitudes
- 5.1Late peaks
- 5.2Early peaks
- 5.30%-plateau contours
- 6.Concluding remarks
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Note
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