The Intonational Structuring of Discourse

✍ Scribed by Hirschberg J., Pierrehumbert J.

Tongue: English
Leaves: 9
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Academic Paper. The authors discuss how variations in pitch range and choice of accent and tune can help to convey
the distinction between 'given' and 'new' information, discourse segmentation and topic structure, appropriate choice of referent, conceptual contrast or parallelism, and subordination relationships between propositions salient in the discourse

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Английский язык;Фонетика / English Phonology and Phonetics;Теоретическая фонетика / Theoretical Phonology and Phonetics of English

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