Prosody and Meaning

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Gorka Elordieta, Pilar Prieto
Walter de Gruyter, Dec 6, 2012 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 388 pages

This series consists of collected volumes and monographs about specific issues dealing with interfaces among the subcomponents of linguistic structure: phonology-morphology, phonology-syntax, syntax-semantics, syntax-morphology, and syntax-lexicon. Recent linguistic research has recognized that the subcomponents of grammar interact in non-trivial ways. What is currently under debate is the actual range of such interactions and their most appropriate representation in grammar, and this is precisely the focus of this series. Specifically, it provides a general overview of various topics by examining them through the interaction of grammatical components. The books function as a state-of- the-art report of research.

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Contents

Introduction
1
A multilevel approach to focusphrasing and intonation in French
11
Syntaxprosody mapping topiccomment structure and stressfocus correspondence in Hungarian
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
Subject index
381
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Gorka Elordieta, University of the Basque Country; Pilar Prieto, Institut Català de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) and Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Catalonia.