The Recategorization of the Rheme and the Structure of the Oral Paragraph in French and in Finnish

At first sight, the intonation systems of French and Finnish – which are typologically distant languages – seem completely different. This paper aims, however, at showing that the discourse-structuring role of the utterance-final pitch rises in spontaneous spoken Finn...

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Main Author: Mari Lehtinen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses universitaires de Caen 2010-12-01
Series:Discours
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/discours/8007