The incremental processing of focus, givenness and prosodic prominence

This study on German investigates the real-time comprehension of items in First Occurrence Focus (focused and new), Second Occurrence Focus (focused and given), Quasi Second Occurrence Focus (derogatory expressions that are referentially given and lexically new) and Background (non-focused and given...

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Main Authors: Petra B. Schumacher, Stefan Baumann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2020-01-01
Series:Glossa
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Online Access:https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/5254/