Elisa Sneed

Intonational overload: Uses of the Downstepped (H *!H * L- L%) contour in read and spontaneous speech (2008)

Julia Hirschberg, Agustín Gravano, Ani Nenkova, Elisa Sneed, Gregory Ward

Intonational contours are overloaded, conveying different meanings in different contexts. In this paper we examine two potential uses of the downstepped contours in Standard American English, in the...