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Prosodic signaling of information and discourse structure from a typological perspective

Karlsson, Anastasia LU ; House, David LU and Svantesson, Jan-Olof LU (2015) 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
Abstract
This study investigates the relationship between prosody and information/discourse structure in spon- taneous spoken folk tales in the tonal Mon-Khmer language Northern Kammu, a language that behaves as a typical phrase language where available boun- dary tones are enhanced to mark information struc- turing. Topic is always placed before Comment by syntactic movement if necessary. There is a prosodic signaling of the boundary between Topic and Com- ment. Discourse structure is reflected in prosody, and we find higher boundary tones near the bounda- ries between Discourse Units. The results are dis- cussed in terms of a typology of spoken discourse.
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Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
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Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015, The
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5 pages
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University of Glasgow
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18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
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2015-08-10 - 2015-08-14
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English
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  abstract     = {{This study investigates the relationship between prosody and information/discourse structure in spon- taneous spoken folk tales in the tonal Mon-Khmer language Northern Kammu, a language that behaves as a typical phrase language where available boun- dary tones are enhanced to mark information struc- turing. Topic is always placed before Comment by syntactic movement if necessary. There is a prosodic signaling of the boundary between Topic and Com- ment. Discourse structure is reflected in prosody, and we find higher boundary tones near the bounda- ries between Discourse Units. The results are dis- cussed in terms of a typology of spoken discourse.}},
  author       = {{Karlsson, Anastasia and House, David and Svantesson, Jan-Olof}},
  booktitle    = {{Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences}},
  editor       = {{Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015, The}},
  isbn         = {{978-0-85261-941-4}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  publisher    = {{University of Glasgow}},
  title        = {{Prosodic signaling of information and discourse structure from a typological perspective}},
  url          = {{http://www.icphs2015.info/pdfs/Papers/ICPHS0013.pdf}},
  year         = {{2015}},
}