EXPLANATION OF SYMBOLS -- PREFACE -- 1. AIMS AND SCOPE OF THE INVESTIGATION -- 2. INTONATIONAL THEORY -- 2.1. Intonation in Linguistics -- 2.2. Towards a Definition of Intonation -- 2.3. Intonational Functions and the Nature of Intonational Meaning -- 2.4. Units of Analysis -- 2.5. Tunes -- 2.6. Terminology and Notation -- 3. GERMAN INTONATION: A SURVEY -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Some Descriptions -- 3.3. Summary -- 4. CONTRASTIVE STUDIES IN GERMAN AND ENGLISH INTONATION -- 4.1. A Survey of Existing Studies -- 4.2. Concepts in Contrastive Linguistic Studies -- 4.3. General Hypotheses -- 4.4. Detailed Analyses and Hypotheses -- 5. EMPIRICAL STUDIES IN INTONOLOGY -- 5.1. The Status of Empirical Procedure in Linguistics -- 5.2. The Status of Empirical Studies in Intonology -- 5.3. Experimental Studies in Intonation -- 5.4. Experiments Relating to the Functions of Intonation -- 5.5. Summary -- 6. THE PRESENT EXPERIMENT: Design and Execution -- 6.1. Methodological Considerations -- 6.2. The Conduct of the Experiments -- 7. REPORT AND DISCUSSION -- 7.1. Overview -- 7.2. Report and Discussion of Individual Experiments -- 8. CONCLUSION -- 8.1. Range and Adequacy of the Experiments -- 8.2. The Results and their Interpretation -- 8.3. Further Research -- BIBLIOGRAPHY.