Prosody and MeaningGorka Elordieta, Pilar Prieto Based on the Workshop on Prosody and Meaning in Barcelona on September 17-18, 2009, this volume brings together researchers working on issues of the prosodic encoding and expression of sentence-level meaning. The contributions to the book result from a vivid exchange of research ideas and research methodologies on issues related to the relationship between prosody and meaning and from stimulating discussions and collaborative work between researchers coming from different perspectives. |
Contents
| 1 | |
| 11 | |
| 35 | |
On the prosody of German whquestions | 73 |
Semantic prosodic and cognitive aspects | 119 |
Production and perception | 163 |
Meanings shades of meanings and prototypes of intonational categories | 197 |
Information structural expectations in the perception of prosodic prominence | 239 |
Can intonation contours be lexicalised? Implications for discourse meanings | 271 |
The effect of sequential relationships between speaker turns | 329 |
Prosody in German Sign Language | 349 |
| 381 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
accent cluster accent type alignment American English analysis anaphor annotation boundary tone broad focus collocates context contrastive focus corpus cues default discrimination discussed domain downstep European Portuguese example exemplars experiment expressions Figure FocP focus condition frequency German German Sign Language Gili Fivela given Gussenhoven H*+L H*L accents identification implicature indefinite pronoun information status information structure interaction interpretation intonation contours intonational phrase lexical type linguistic listeners marNed mitgebracht narrow focus neutral non-prototype nuclear accented pairs peaN perception Perceptual Magnet Effect phonetic phonological phonological phrase Pierrehumbert pitch accent prominence prosodic phrasing prosodic structure prototype Prt-V question referential relation Sandler Section semantic sentence stress sign languages speaNers speech spoNen stimuli STRESS-XP syllable syllable onset syntactic syntax target tasN tion tonal topic topic-comment topic-comment partition utterances verb weak interpretation wh-inherent F wh-movement wh-phrases wh-questions wh-word word