Why do speakers accent ‘‘given’’ information?
Horne, Merle LU
(1991)
Eurospeech 91: 2nd European conference on speech communication and technology
p.1279-1282
- Abstract
- 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.
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- author
- Horne, Merle
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 1991
- type
- Contribution to conference
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- metrical structure, prosodic structure, tone-unit, intermediate phrase, accentual phrase, 'given information', 'new information', deaccenting, rhythm.
- pages
- 1279 - 1282
- conference name
- Eurospeech 91: 2nd European conference on speech communication and technology
- conference dates
- 1991-09-24
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85135166997
- DOI
- 10.21437/Eurospeech.1991-293
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- 6fac90d3-a363-4584-b225-aeb7c6263e5f (old id 1274920)
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