Slovak ‘no’ and its pragmatic meanings and functions in relation to prosody

This paper examines the contributions of lexical context and prosody on the perception of the Slovak particle ‘no’, [nɔ] in IPA. The functional meanings of this discourse marker are similar to those of ‘okay’ in English. Based on a literature review, we expected that the presence of the prosodic cue...

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Main Authors: Mareková Lucia, Beňuš Štefan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra 2020-06-01
Series:Topics in Linguistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/topling-2020-0001