This is an experimental investigation of tonal production as a function of lexical
stress variability and sentence types in Greek. One production experiment was
carried out according to which the lexical stress assignment in the last words varied
in the last three syllables in the context of polylectic and monolectic statement and
alternative (polar) question sentence contexts. The results indicate that statements
are associated with a rise-fall tonal pattern encompassing the last stressed syllable
whereas the questions are associated with a rise-fall tonal pattern encompassing the last syllable of the utterance. The initial rise of the rise-fall in statements may