French intonation and attitude attribution

Belief attribution is an important feature of the semantics of lexical items (e.g. verbs like to imagine vs to believe which trigger presupposition) or syntactic formants (e.g. conditionnel in French). Here we propose that it is crucially involved in intonation meaning, especially in the meaning of final contours in French. Final contours are realized over the rightmost phrase of focal domains, th