In asking a question, does the pitch rise at the end of the sentence? Question intonation is more complex than this example might suggest. Alongside a detailed discussion of the significance of intonation in questions, this study presents the results of two production and three perception based experiments. It concludes that intonation serves more to signal the speaker's questioning attitude than as a binary grammatical function.

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Jan Michalsky, University of Oldenburg, Germany.