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The Pragmatic Functions of Prosody in English Cleft Sentences

The prosodic and pragmatic analysis of some 450 examples of clefts, taken in corpora of spontaneous and natural speech, sheds light on the different functions that prosody can take on in discourse. The prosodic analysis is mainly based on the number of tone units, the place of the nuclear syllable and the pitch movement. The context is also taken into account. We show that clefts display a vari...

The Affective and Pragmatic Coding of Prosody

Prosody or intonation is a prime carrier of affective information, a function that has often been neglected in speech research. Most work on prosody has been informed by linguistic models of sentence intonation that focus on accent structure and which are based on widely differing theoretical assumptions. Human speech production includes both prosodic coding of emotions, such as anger or happin...

Gesture Prosody Integration in Pragmatic Processing

Introduction to Neuroscience and its Influence on Studying Human Development

Neuroscience, the study of the nervous system, has traditionally been seen as a branch of Biology. Due to major advances in electrophysiology or computational neuroscience during the past decades, tremendous advances have been made on how humans’ brain and nervous system works, how it is structured, and how it can be influenced. Thereby, neuroscience moved more towards an interdisciplinary fiel...

: metadiscourse in introduction sections of applied linguistics and physics research articles: exploring variation in frequency and type

abstract in written mode of language, metadiscourse markers are used commonly to help writers in general and academic writers in particular to produce coherent and professional texts. the purpose of the present study was to compare introduction sections of applied linguistics and physics articles regarding their use of interactive and interactional metadiscourse markers based on the model pro...