Intonation is one of the prosodic features that influence the conveyed meaning of discourse. It refers to the variations in the pitch of a speaker's voice used to convey or alter meaning. Information structure of spoken discourse is closely related to intonation as intonation serves to convey the organization of information in an utterance.
The present study is an attempt to investigate the intonational marking of given/new information in oral storytelling through conducting an instrumental analysis of intonational contours. Two approaches are adopted as the theoretical framework: Pierrehumbert's Autosegmental Metrical Approach (1980) and Prince's Assumed Familiarity Approach