: Gorka Elordieta, Pilar Prieto
: Prosody and Meaning
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9783110261790
: Interface Explorations [IE]ISSN
: 1
: CHF 160.50
:
: Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
: English
: 388
: Wasserzeichen
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: PDF
< >Based on theWorkshop on Prosody and Meaningin 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.



< >Gorka Elordieta, University of the Basque Country; Pilar Prieto, Institut Català de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) and Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Catalonia.

Introduction7
A multi-level approach to focus,phrasing and intonation in French17
Syntax-prosody mapping, topic-comment structure and stress-focus correspondence in Hungarian41
On the prosody of German wh-questions79
Referential and lexical givenness: Semantic, prosodic and cognitive aspects125
A focus intonational morpheme in European Portuguese: Production and perception169
Meanings, shades of meanings and prototypes of intonational categories203
Information structural expectations in the perception of prosodic prominence245
Can intonation contours be lexicalised? Implications for discourse meanings277
Prosody in context: The effect of sequential relationships between speaker turns335
Prosody in German Sign Language355
Subject index387