[Yuxiao Y]

In chapter 8.3.2, it says there are four levels of prominence: emphatic accent, pitch accent, unaccented and reduced. Here I understand those four terms as just four ways to emphasise (or ‘de-emphasize’) a part of a speech.

However, in the ToBI model, ‘pitch accent’ appears again as a set of classes like H* and L*. Is ‘pitch accent’ here the same as that in the four levels of prominence? If so, what makes it unique to be chosen as a set of classes in ToBI? If not, what does it mean respectively in the two different contexts?

And another trivial question: what is an IP-initial accent in chapter 8.3.6?

Thanks!

[Yuxiao Y]

Ah I found it in the reading!

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