The Role of Prosody in Expressing Subjective and Objective Causality in English.
Numerous studies have established that prosody plays an important role in expressing meanings and functions. However, it remains unknown whether prosody is employed to convey the distinction between subjective causality (CLAIM-ARGUMENT) and objective causality (CONSEQUENCE-CAUSE). This study aimed t...
| Publicado en: | Language & Speech Vol. 69; no. 3; pp. 753 - 778 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Sep2026
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