Acknowledgements -- Notational conventions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Bilingual acquisition of intonation -- 2.1 Description and transcription of the phonological systems of English and German intonation -- 2.1.1 The British tradition -- 2.1.2 The autosegmental-metrical (AM) approach -- 2.1.3 Compatibility of the two transcription systems -- 2.2 The linguistic functions of intonation -- 2.3 The phonetic correlates of intonation -- 2.3.1 The phonetic correlates of nuclei, pitch accents and intonational phrasing -- 2.3.2 Pitch -- 2.3.3 Loudness -- 2.3.4 Length -- 2.3.5 Pause -- 2.4 Bilingual acquisition of intonation -- 2.4.1 Bilingual first language acquisition -- 2.4.2 Bilingual language representation and processing -- 2.4.3 Language representation and processing in bilingual first language acquisition -- 2.4.4 Bilingual acquisition of the phonological system of intonation -- 2.4.5 Bilingual acquisition of the phonetic parameters of intonation -- 2.5 A model of the bilingual acquisition of intonation -- 3. Bilingual acquisition of nucleus placement -- 3.1 The phonological systems of nucleus placement in German and English -- 3.2 The phonetic production of nuclei -- 3.2.1 Pitch and pitch movement during stressed syllables -- 3.2.2 Intensity -- 3.2.3 Length -- 3.3 The acquisition of nucleus placement -- 3.3.1 The acquisition of word stress -- 3.3.2 Transition to sentence-level stress -- 3.3.3 Acquisition of the phonological rules of nucleus placement -- 3.4 Mastery of the phonetic production of nuclear stress and emphasis -- 3.5 Research questions -- 4. Bilingual acquisition of the system of pitch -- 4.1 The phonological systems of pitch in English and German -- 4.2 The phonetic production of pitch accents in English and German -- 4.3 The acquisition of the phonological system of pitch -- 4.4 Mastery of the phonetic production of pitch accents.

4.5 Research questions -- 5. Bilingual acquisition of intonational phrasing -- 5.1 The phonological systems of intonational phrasing in English and German -- 5.2 The phonetic correlates of intonational phrases -- 5.3 The acquisition of intonational phrasing -- 5.4 Mastery of the phonetic correlates of intonational phrasing -- 5.5 Research questions -- 6. The study - research questions, method and analysis -- 6.1 Research questions -- 6.1.1 Nucleus placement -- 6.1.2 Pitch -- 6.1.3 Intonational phrasing -- 6.2 Method -- 6.2.1 Data -- 6.2.2 The subjects of the study -- 6.2.3 Data collection -- 6.3 Analysis -- 6.3.1 Data -- 6.3.2 Auditory analysis and layout of the transcription -- 6.3.3 Reliability of the auditory analysis -- 6.3.4 Acoustic analysis -- 6.3.5 Agreement between the two kinds of analysis -- 7. Results -- 7.1 Hannah's general acquisition path: 2 -- 1 to 2 -- 6 -- 7.2 Laura's general acquisition path: 2 -- 5 to 4 -- 3 -- 7.3 Adam's general acquisition path: 3 -- 6 to 5 -- 5 -- 8. The acquisition of nucleus placement -- 8.1 Hannah: Acquisition from 2 -- 1 to 2 -- 6 -- 8.1.1 Phonological use of nucleus placement at 2 -- 1 -- 8.1.2 Phonetic production of stress -- 8.1.3 Production of nuclei at 2 -- 6 -- 8.2 Laura: Acquisition from 2 -- 5 to 4 -- 3 -- 8.2.1 Phonological use of nucleus placement -- 8.2.2 The phonetic production of nuclei -- 8.3 Adam: Acquisition from 3 -- 6 to 5 -- 5 -- 8.3.1 Phonological use of nucleus placement -- 8.3.2 The phonetic production of nuclei -- 9. The acquisition of the system of pitch -- 9.1 Hannah: Acquisition from 2 -- 1 to 2 -- 6 -- 9.1.1 Phonological use of pitch -- 9.1.2 Marking of the communicative situation by pitch -- 9.1.3 Hannah's acquisition of the systematic use of pitch in questions -- 9.1.4 The phonetic production of pitch accents -- 9.2 Laura: Acquisition from 2 -- 5 to 4 -- 3.

9.2.1 Phonological use of pitch -- 9.2.2 Laura's acquisition of the systematic use of pitch in questions -- 9.2.3 The phonetic production of pitch accents -- 9.2.4 Laura's phonetic pattern -- 9.3 Adam: Acquisition from 3 -- 6 to 5 -- 5 -- 9.3.1 Phonological use of pitch -- 9.3.2 Adam's acquisition of the systematic use of pitch in questions -- 9.3.3 The phonetic production of pitch accents -- 9.3.4 Adam's phonetic pattern -- 10. The acquisition of intonational phrasing -- 10.1 Hannah: Acquisition from 2 -- 1 to 2 -- 6 -- 10.1.1 Production of phonetic correlates of intonational phrases -- 10.1.2 Phonological use of intonational phrasing -- 10.2 Laura: Acquisition from 2 -- 5 to 4 -- 3 -- 10.2.1 Production of the phonetic correlates of intonational phrases -- 10.2.2 Phonological use of intonational phrasing -- 10.3 Adam: Acquisition from 3 -- 6 to 5 -- 5 -- 11. Summary and discussion -- 11.1 Summary and discussion -- 11.1.1 Nucleus placement -- 11.1.2 Pitch -- 11.1.3 Intonational phrasing -- 11.1.4 Bilingual acquisition of intonation -- 11.1.5 Bilingual vs. monolingual acquisition -- 11.2 The model revised -- 11.3 The acquisition of intonation in the general language acquisition process -- 11.4 Outlook and future research -- 12. References.