Chapter 9. Conclusions and implications

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Acknowledgement xi
4. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 2. Discourse intonation systems 11
6. Chapter 3. Transcribing the Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English (HKCSE) 31
7. Chapter 4. The iConc Concordancing Program 41
8. Chapter 5. Tone Units 61
9. Chapter 6. Prominence 85
10. Chapter 7. Tones 125
11. Chapter 8. Key and termination 161
12. Chapter 9. Conclusions and implications 193
13. References 199
14. Appendix 1 207
15. Appendix 2 211
16. Appendix 3 215
17. Appendix 4 257
18. Appendix 5 271
19. Appendix 6 291
20. Author index 319
21. Subject index 321