If speech serves the goal of human communication, the speech act of questioning does so in
optima forma. More than any other act performed by speech, a question draws the …

The present tutorial paper is addressed to a wide audience with different discipline
backgrounds as well as variable expertise on intonation. The paper is structured into five …

The research reported in this paper concentrates on the contribution of local melodic factors
such as pitch accents and boundary tones to the (non) projection of possible turn transition …

Questions (almost) universally differ from statements in that the former have some element of
high pitch that is absent in the latter. Therefore, the difference in speech melody (intonation) …

It is well-established for assertions that the information-structural status of referents
influences prosodic prominence: givenness reduces and contrastive focus increases …

Prosody refers to all suprasegmental aspects of speech, including pitch, duration, amplitude,
and voice quality, that are used to make lexical and post-lexical contrasts. Tone refers to …

The prosody of non-assertive speech acts other than questions is rather underexplored.
Very little is known about the role of information structure in non-assertive speech acts in …

The main goal of the phonetic experiments reported in this dissertation is to find out whether
there is cross-linguistic transfer of phonetic features between the native dialects of Catalan …

This study investigates the prosody of rhetorical questions in German. In an interaction study
we examined how speakers use boundary tones, pitch, duration and voice quality to mark …

Languages employ a range of different means for realizing communicative functions,
including word choice, morpho-syntax and prosody. The relative weight of each of these …