In English, H* is said to encode new information and be realized as high pitch, while L+H* encodes degrees of contrastivity and realized as rising pitch. However, empirical evidence for this distinction is sparse, especially in Southern British English (SBE). To gain a better understanding, we examined 2,126 words with high and rising accents in an SBE corpus of unscripted speech. The accents were separately annotated for (i) f0 shape (high or rising) in PRAAT and (ii) pragmatic function (corrective, contrastive, and non-contrastive) based on written transcripts only. The data were modelled using Functional Principal Component Analysis and GAMMs. Phonetically H* and L+H* were distinct: H* was realized as a fall and L+H* as a rise-fall. However, these shapes did not neatly map onto pragmatic functions: corrective accents were likely to be L+H*s and were, thus, distinct from non-contrastive accents, which were likely to be H*s, but there was no phonetic difference between contrastive accents and non-contrastive accents and corrective accents, indicating that the mapping between phonetic form and pragmatic function was not one-to-one. By separating the shape-from the meaning-based annotation, the relation between the f0 shapes and the pragmatic functions of these accents is thus better understood.