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The Meaning of Intonation: Some French Data
(1)a. « Stress and intonation in English have been commonly regarded as « mere stylistic factors » which do not contribute to the essential meaning of sentences. In this chapter we will begin to construct an account of the semantic effects of these phonological phenomena and show how they fit into the general theory proposed here and into a possible theory of discourse. » Jackendoff (1972 : 229...
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The paper briefly reviews a theory of intonational prosody and its relation syntax, and to certain oppositions of discourse meaning that have variously been called "topic and comment", "theme and rheme", "given and new", or "presupposition and focus". The theory, which is based on Combinatory Categorial Grammar, is presented in full elsewhere. the present paper examines its consequences for the...
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Introductions to speech research and acoustic phonetics can be found in (Ladefoged, 1962; Denes and Pinson, 1973; Fry, 1979). For survey-level introductions to studies of English intonation, see (Halliday, 1967; Crystal, 1969; Crystal, 1975; Cruttenden, 1986; Couper-Kuhlen, 1986). (Ladd, 1980; Bolinger, 1986; Bolinger, 1989) also represent good introductions to studies of intonational meaning. ...
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The phonological categories of tone, stress, duration and intonation interact in interesting and complex ways in the world’s languages. One reason for this is that they all use the phonetic cues of pitch and duration in different ways in order to be understood as phonologically meaningful. The Navajo language has unique prosodic characteristics that make it particularly valuable for the study o...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society
سال: 2011
ISSN: 2377-1666,0363-2946
DOI: 10.3765/bls.v11i0.1902