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...

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Publicado en:Language & Speech Vol. 56; no. 4; pp. 461 - 492
Autores principales: Turco, Giuseppina, Dimroth, Christine, Braun, Bettina
Formato: pictorial research tables/charts tracings Journal Article
Publicado: Sage Publications Inc. Dec2013
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