Prosodic signaling of information and discourse structure from a typological perspective
(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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- author
- Karlsson, Anastasia LU ; House, David LU and Svantesson, Jan-Olof LU
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- publishing date
- 2015
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- host publication
- Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
- editor
- Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015, The
- pages
- 5 pages
- publisher
- University of Glasgow
- conference name
- 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
- conference dates
- 2015-08-10 - 2015-08-14
- ISBN
- 978-0-85261-941-4
- 978-0-85261-942-1
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- The information about affiliations in this record was updated in December 2015. The record was previously connected to the following departments: Linguistics and Phonetics (015010003)
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- 382c1d31-6caa-4b37-9a05-a55d97891b73 (old id 7988893)
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