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SUMMARY
This article subits some basic observations toward the analysis of Icelandic into-
nation within the framework of the autosegmental/metrical tradition in intonational
phonology (see e.g. Pierrehumbert 1980 and Ladd 1992). Section 2 contains a discus-
sion of sentence stress and the rhythmic organisation of utterances. It is shown that
the basic rule is for sentence stress to be final, whereas word stress is initial. Thus
„other things being equal“ the nuclear syllable is the stressed syllable of the rightmost
word in an utterance. But other factors, such as differences in the „strength" of some
morphological classes, focus structure and other contextual phenomena may affect the
pattern of sentence stress. In Section 3 there is a description of the pitch accents, and in
Section 4 an account is given of the boundary tones and their interplay with the pitch
accents. The most important tonal units are: a HL pitch accent, a LH pitch accent and
two boundary tones, a H and a L. All combinations of these tones are shown to occur
toward the end of utterances: