List of Tables
Table 2.1 The communicative value of key and termination
from Brazil (1997) 28
Table 2.2 The communicative value of tone coupled with
termination 41
Table 3.1 A-events, B-events, A-B events as increments 51
Table 3.2 Classifi cation of knowledge/beliefs in terms
of certainty 53
Table 3.3 Correspondences between Pierrehumbert (1980)
and nuclear tones 68
Table 3.4 The relationship between lexical access and ‘context’ 83
Table 4.1 Major types of speech errors occurring beyond
the orthographic word 100
Table 5.1 The readers and their readings 117
Table 5.2 Tone choices in Texts 1 and 2 121
Table 5.3 A list of all elements coded as PHR 130
Table 6.1 Tone in increment fi nal position 135
Table 6.2 Non-end-falling tones in increment fi nal position 136
Table 6.3 Correspondence between increment fi nal rises
and grammatical elements 139
Table 6.4 Correspondence between increment fi nal rises
and inferred elements 142
Table 6.5 Elements which coincided with increment fi nal fall-rises 144
Table 6.6 Increments containing level tone tone units 151
Table 7.1 Number of high keys in increment initial, medial
and fi nal position 158
Table 7.2 The communicative value of increment initial high key 159
Table 7.3 Non-increment initial high key 166
Table 7.4 The communicative value of non-increment
initial high key 166
Table 7.5 Number of high terminations in increment initial,
medial and fi nal position 171