Intonational Means to Mark Verum Focus in German and French.
German and French differ in a number of aspects. Regarding the prosody-pragmatics interface, German is said to have a direct focus-to-accent mapping, which is largely absent in French – owing to strong structural constraints. We used a semi-spontaneous dialogue setting to investigate the intonationa...
| Publicado en: | Language & Speech Vol. 56; no. 4; pp. 461 - 492 |
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| Formato: | pictorial research tables/charts tracings Journal Article |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Dec2013
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