Information structure and phrase length as predictors of AP-initial accents

This study addresses the relationship between information structure and prosodic form in French. More specifically, it tests whether phrase-initial accents (LHi) are associated with the left edge of contrastively focused constituents in wh-interrogatives. Since word length has also been correlated w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: German, James, D'Imperio, Mariapaola
Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Format: Conference Paper
Language:English
Published: 2014
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/103639
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/19268