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CHAPTER1
1.1Thestructureofutterancesforprosodicanalysis
Timingisanimportantaspectofprosodicorganisationofspeech,strictly
connectedwithintonationandrhythm(seeChapter3).Becausetheseaspects
areinterrelated,thedescriptionofutteranceorphrasestructuresforming
theobjectofanalysiswillnaturallyrefertothesameunits,eventhough
thepresentstudyisnotdirectlyinvolvedinintonationunderstoodaspitch
contours(e.g.‘tHartetal.1990)orpitchtargetsandboundarytones
(Pierrehumbert1980).Therefore,inordertoestablishaprosodicstructureand
defineprosodicdomainsbestservingthepurposesofthepresentdissertation,
abriefreviewofprominentprosodictheoriespertainingtointonation
constitutesthefirstpartofthischapter.
1.1.1Higher-levelutteranceconstituents
Inlinewithmostphonologicalapproaches,wewillregardtheutterance
asthehighest-leveldomain,arelativelyautonomousspeechunitinterms
ofprosody,syntaxanddiscourse,oftencorrespondingtoasentence.
Thesegmentationofutterancesinthecontextofpronunciationteachinghas
traditionallybeenbasedontheNuclearToneApproach,associatedwith
theBritishSchool(Kingdon1958,Crystal1969,O’ConnorandArnold1961,
1973,Gimson1980,Cruttenden1986).Thisapproachwasindeeddesignedfor
foreignlearnersofEnglish.Thefundamentalunitofanutterancehasbeen
calledasensegroup(O’ConnorandArnold1961),tone-group(O’Connorand
Arnold1973)intonation-group(Cruttenden1997)oratone-unit(Crystal1969,
Halliday1970).Thecentralelementofsuchaunitisthenucleus(Palmer
1922),definedasGthestressedsyllableofthelastprominentwordinasense
group”(O’ConnorandArnold1961:271).Thepartoftheutterancefrom