Perception of focus and word order variability in Greek
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This is an experimental study of prosodic focus and syntactic word order interactions with reference to agent/recipient semantic relations in Greek. In accordance with one perception experiment, the results in morphology neutral context indicate: (1) listeners do not perceive agent and recipient semantic distinctions and (2) prosody and focus applications do not thus have any perception effect whereas (3) word order has a major interference effect.
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تاریخ انتشار 2013