ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses of accent and its relevance to foreground and background, new information and old information, and similar formulations, which tends to rely on declarative sentences, and as a rule come out pretty well. If wh questions are like declaratives in their prosodic shape, as is generally thought to be the case, then a one-accent utterance with the fronted wh word getting all the prominence should not be the norm. People would expect some part of the 'given' to be highlighted as well as the wh word, just to preserve the shape, if for no other reason. With the canonical pattern marking where and hide as accented and the highest pitch reached on hide. There is just a single accent, on the wh word, that word needs extra importance and the later element proportionately less. A similar enrichment occurs when a synonym is used, one which under some circumstances might be taken to 'repeat' the sense of the word.
