Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface xi
4. Tables and Figures xiii
5. Transcription conventions xv
6. Abbreviations xvii
7. 1. Introduction 1
8. 2. Information flow in spoken discourse 7
9. 3. Method of the study 43
10. 4. Syntactic structure of the intonation unit in conversational Japanese 51
11. 5. Information structure of the intonation unit in conversational Japanese 101
12. 6. Functional structure of the intonation unit in conversational Japanese 141
13. 7. Conclusion 159
14. Notes 169
15. References 179
16. Index 191