Prosodic Effects of Discourse Salience and Association with Focus

Three factors that have been argued to influence the prosody of an utterance are (i) which constituents encode discourse-salient information; (ii) which constituents are contrastive in that they evoke alternatives; and (iii) which constituents interact with the meaning of focus operators such as onl...

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Main Authors: Wagner, M., Breen, Mara, Flemming, Edward, Shattuck-Hufnagel, Stefanie, Gibson, Edward A.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71815
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