Class 3 (11/7 Mon 12pm-2pm)

– Topic 2: Tune choice and context updates

* Case studies: rising contour (L* H-H% / H* H-H%), calling contour (H* !H-L%), rise-fall-rise (L*+H L-H%)

– Core readings:

* Jeong (2018). Intonation and Sentence Type Conventions: Two Types of Rising Declaratives. Journal of Semantics.

* Constant (2012). English rise-fall-rise: a study in the semantics and pragmatics of intonation. Linguistics and Philosophy.

* Jeong & Condoravdi (2018). Imperatives and Intonation: The Case of the Down-Stepped Level Terminal Contour. WCCFL.

– Supplementary readings:

* Farkas & Bruce (2009). On reacting to assertions and polar questions. Journal of Semantics.

* Condoravdi et al. (2019). Endorsement of inconsistent imperatives. LSA.

* Rudin (2022). Intonational commitments. Journal of Semantics.

* Rett & Sturman (2020). Prosodically marked mirativity. WCCFL.