Universal and Language-specific English and P
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We compared nuclear accent production in English and Polish read speech. We investigated declaratives and three types of questions. We expected to find (a) cross-linguistic differences and (b) a cross-language generalisation which may be evidence for an intonational universal. The generalisation under investigation was a trade-off between syntactic or lexical question markers in the text and the production of high pitch. The expected cross-linguistic difference involved the production and distribution of nuclear accent types in different kinds of utterances.
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تاریخ انتشار 2003