Table of contents
Prefacexi
Tables and Figuresxiii
Transcription conventionsxv
Abbreviationsxvii
1. Introduction1
2. Information flow in spoken discourse7
3. Method of the study43
4. Syntactic structure of the intonation unit in conversational Japanese51
5. Information structure of the intonation unit in conversational Japanese101
6. Functional structure of the intonation unit in conversational Japanese141
7. Conclusion159
Notes169
References179
Index191
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