ABSTRACT
Final intonation contour is an utterance said with a noticeable rise or fall of the pitch of the voice on the focus stress. Each line is an idea unit and an intonation unit. Not all speech makes speech sentences clear and easy to find and there are forms of speech where the notion of a sentence may be irrelevant. One reason speakers use cohesion markers is to make connections to signal what information is meant to go together as part of a topic, theme, or argument. Stories have parts like beginnings, middle, and ends; arguments can be composed of sub-arguments in service of a larger argument. Speakers do not just "say what they mean" and get it over with. They lay out information in a way that fits with their perspective on the information and the interaction.
