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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779726903321

Titolo

Prosody and meaning [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Gorka Elordieta, Pilar Prieto

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2012

ISBN

3-11-026179-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (390 p.)

Collana

Interface Explorations [IE] ; ; 25

Interface explorations, , 1861-4167 ; ; 25

Classificazione

EC 3080

Altri autori (Persone)

ElordietaGorka

PrietoPilar

Disciplina

401.43

Soggetti

Prosodic analysis (Linguistics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- A multi-level approach to focus,phrasing and intonation in French / D'Imperio, Mariapaola / German, James / Michelas, Amandine -- Syntax-prosody mapping, topic-comment structure and stress-focus correspondence in Hungarian / Surányi, Balâzs / Ishihara, Shinichiro / Schubö, Fabian -- On the prosody of German wh-questions / Truckenbrodt, Hubert -- Referential and lexical givenness: Semantic, prosodic and cognitive aspects / Baumann, Stefan / Riester, Arndt -- A focus intonational morpheme in European Portuguese: Production and perception / Frota, Sónia -- Meanings, shades of meanings and prototypes of intonational categories / Gili Fivela, Barbara -- Information structural expectations in the perception of prosodic prominence / Bishop, Jason -- Can intonation contours be lexicalised? Implications for discourse meanings / Calhoun, Sasha / Schweitzer, Antje -- Prosody in context: The effect of sequential relationships between speaker turns / Wichmann, Anne -- Prosody in German Sign Language / Herrmann, Annika -- Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

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 resultfroma vivid exchange ofresearch ideas and research methodologies on issues related to the relationship between prosody and meaning andfrom



stimulating discussions and collaborative work between researchers coming from different perspectives.