Why do speakers accent ‘‘given’’ information?
Författare
Summary, in English
The accenting of contextually 'given' information constitutes a problem for analyses that regard accents as correlating only with 'new' information. It will be shown that the accenting of 'given' information is explainable as resulting from general metrical well-formedness conditions on prosodic constituents. Units higher than the word are seen to obey the same metrical constraints that are present at the word level.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
1991
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
1279-1282
Dokumenttyp
Konferens - annat
Ämne
- General Language Studies and Linguistics
Nyckelord
- metrical structure
- prosodic structure
- tone-unit
- intermediate phrase
- accentual phrase
- 'given information'
- 'new information'
- deaccenting
- rhythm.
Conference name
Eurospeech 91: 2nd European conference on speech communication and technology
Conference date
1991-09-24
Status
Published