ABSTRACT
The relation between the prosodic constituent structure as defined in the previous chapters and intonation is dealt with in this chapter. As described in the introduction to this thesis, the theory of intonational structure I am assuming has at its core two fundamental claims: (i) intonation has a phonological organization; (ii) intonational features relate with independent features of the phonological organization of speech, which are established on the basis of (some sort of) prosodic structure (see chap. 1, sections 1.2 and 1.3). Both (i) and (ii) have important consequences for the account of neutral declarative intonation and focus intonation presented in this chapter.
