The intonation of givenness : evidence from German / Stefan Baumann.

The intonation of givenness : evidence from German /

This book addresses students and researchers of phonetics/phonology, and the semantics and pragmatics of discourse. It employs an autosegmental-metrical model of intonation to investigate the marking of aspects of information structure, concentrating on the Given-New dimension. The empirical evidenc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Baumann, Stefan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tübingen : Niemeyer, 2006.
Series:Linguistische Arbeiten (Max Niemeyer Verlag) ; 508.
Subjects:
Intonation (Phonetics)
German language > Intonation.
Discourse analysis.
Semantics.
Pragmatics.
Cognition.
semantics.
pragmatics.
cognition.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction; 1.1 Motivation and Aims; 1.2 Structure of the Study; 2 Theoretical Background; 2.1 Intonation; 2.2 Givenness; 2.3 Intermediate Summary: The Relation between Intonation and Givenness; 3 Corpus Analysis; 3.1 The MULI Database; 3.2 Analysis; 3.3 Discussion; 4 Experiments; 4.1 Perception Experiment I: Accent Type and Modes of Givenness; 4.2 Perception Experiment II: Accent Type and Types of Accessibility; 5 A Model of Intonation and Givenness; 6 Summary and Outlook; Bibliography.

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