ESCA Workshop on Prosody Lund, Sweden September 27-29, 1993

Intonation and Prosodic Coherence in Greek Discourse

Antonis Botinis

Phonetics Laboratory, Dept. of Linguistics, Philosophical Faculty, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

The present contribution is part of a larger investigation on tonal structuring in spontaneous Greek discourse. In this paper, we present our observations on prosodic coherence and the role of intonation in signalling different types of prosodic boundaries. Our analysis is concentrated on tonal sequences that may be used at intonation unit boundaries. The results support the view that various combinations of prosodic parameters are used for discourse segmentation, but they also bring into light evidence that different tonal manifestations at prosodic boundaries may imply different prosodic coherence and discourse interpretation.

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Bibliographic reference.  Botinis, Antonis (1993): "Intonation and prosodic coherence in greek discourse", In Prosody-1993, 100-103.