The intonation of givenness : evidence from German /
This book addresses students and researchers of phonetics/phonology, and the semantics and pragmatics of discourse. It employs an autosegmental-metrical model of intonation to investigate the marking of aspects of information structure, concentrating on the Given-New dimension. The empirical evidenc...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tübingen :
Niemeyer,
2006.
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Colección: | Linguistische Arbeiten (Max Niemeyer Verlag) ;
508. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1 Introduction; 1.1 Motivation and Aims; 1.2 Structure of the Study; 2 Theoretical Background; 2.1 Intonation; 2.2 Givenness; 2.3 Intermediate Summary: The Relation between Intonation and Givenness; 3 Corpus Analysis; 3.1 The MULI Database; 3.2 Analysis; 3.3 Discussion; 4 Experiments; 4.1 Perception Experiment I: Accent Type and Modes of Givenness; 4.2 Perception Experiment II: Accent Type and Types of Accessibility; 5 A Model of Intonation and Givenness; 6 Summary and Outlook; Bibliography.