2.3. Intonation
Intonation comprises all the prosodic phenomena that accompany (strings of) signs to indicate emotional state, sentence type, and emphasis. Since emotional state is not part of grammar, we will not pay any further attention to this type of intonation.Specific intonation patterns can be associated with a grammatical function, and these patterns may consist of combinations of non-manual markers (NMMs) which can each have a different domain. Table 2.15 provides a selection of sentence types, information-structural notions, and complex clauses with their typically associated non-manual markers, which together form the intonational patterns of these constituents. Manual markers are not included in this table, since they might mark the start or end of specific clause types, but are not relevant for the intonation of that clause.
Table 2.15. Overview of non-manual markers (NMMs), their functions and spreading domain.
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