A Corpus-driven Study of Discourse Intonation: The Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English (Prosodic) (Studies in Corpus Linguistics)

A Corpus-driven Study of Discourse Intonation......Page 2
Editorial page
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Title page
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LCC data
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Dedication
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Table of contents......Page 8
Acknowledgement......Page 12
Background......Page 14
The Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English (HKCSE)......Page 15
Collection of data for HKCSE......Page 17
Composition of HKCSE (prosodic)......Page 18
Speaker characteristics......Page 20
Structure of the book......Page 23
Discourse intonation framework......Page 24
Four systems of speaker intonational choices......Page 27
Tone unit......Page 28
Prominence, key and termination......Page 29
Tone choice: proclaiming and referring......Page 34
Tone choice: dominance and control......Page 36
Orientation......Page 38
Declarative-mood questions......Page 39
Yes-no questions......Page 40
Information questions......Page 42
Conclusion......Page 43
Transcribing the HKCSE (prosodic)......Page 44
Problems encountered in transcribing HKCSE (prosodic)......Page 50
Conclusion......Page 52
The Corpus Menu......Page 54
The intonation menu: Tone units......Page 57
The intonation menu: Key (ONLY)......Page 61
The intonation menu: Key + Termination......Page 63
The intonation menu: Prominence......Page 64
The concordance menu: Search......Page 66
The concordance menu: Discourse Intonation System/Word Search......Page 67
The Statistics Menu......Page 69
The Statistics Menu: Unique Words......Page 71
The Statistics Menu: Compare Unique Words Lists......Page 72
Conclusion......Page 73
Distribution of size of tone units......Page 74
Single word tone units......Page 79
Tone unit boundaries and disambiguation......Page 81
Alternative ‘or’......Page 85
Approximative versus specific use of numerals......Page 87
Tone unit boundaries and Linear Unit grammar......Page 88
Tone unit boundaries, Linear Unit Grammar and back-channels......Page 92
Tone unit boundaries and extended collocations......Page 93
Conclusions......Page 95
Distribution of prominences......Page 98
Opposites......Page 103
“Inevitability”......Page 104
Speakers’ differing perspectives......Page 106
Double-prominence on one word......Page 107
Convergence......Page 109
Vague use of numbers......Page 115
Pre-modification of vague determiners......Page 118
Lexical cohesion......Page 120
Word associations......Page 124
Pronoun prominence......Page 126
Word class and frequency......Page 129
Conclusions......Page 135
Introduction......Page 138
Distribution of tones across speakers and sub-corpora......Page 139
Proclaiming and referring tones......Page 142
Functions of the level tone......Page 144
Context 1......Page 145
Context 2......Page 148
Frequencies of use of the level tone for Contexts 1 and 2......Page 154
Disambiguation and tones......Page 155
Declarative-mood questions......Page 157
Question types and tone choice......Page 161
Speaker dominance and control......Page 162
Continuative use of the rise tone......Page 164
Use of the rise tone to exert pressure on hearer to speak......Page 165
Use of the rise tone to openly remind the hearer(s) of common ground......Page 166
Change in the speaker’s world view......Page 167
Distribution of the rise and the rise-fall tones across discourse types......Page 169
Conclusions......Page 171
Introduction......Page 174
Distribution of key and termination across the HKCSE (prosodic)......Page 175
Patterns of usage......Page 179
Contrastive use......Page 180
Disagreements......Page 182
Particularising use of high key
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Topic development......Page 189
Endings......Page 191
Equative......Page 192
Pitch concord and discord......Page 194
Pitch discord......Page 198
Frequency distribution of pitch concord and discord......Page 200
Most frequent word classes in single word tone units......Page 201
Conclusions......Page 203
Concluding comments......Page 206
Implications for future research......Page 208
Implications for learning and teaching
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References......Page 212
HKCSE-Related scholarly output to date......Page 220
Distribution of words......Page 224
Tone units......Page 228
Prominence......Page 270
Tones......Page 284
Key and termination......Page 304
Author index......Page 332
Subject index......Page 334
The
series Studies in Corpus Linguistics (SCL)......Page 340