Prosody and Meaning 9783110261790, 9783110260076

Table of contents :
Introduction
A multi-level approach to focus,phrasing and intonation in French
Syntax-prosody mapping, topic-comment structure and stress-focus correspondence in Hungarian
On the prosody of German wh-questions
Referential and lexical givenness: Semantic, prosodic and cognitive aspects
A focus intonational morpheme in European Portuguese: Production and perception
Meanings, shades of meanings and prototypes of intonational categories
Information structural expectations in the perception of prosodic prominence
Can intonation contours be lexicalised? Implications for discourse meanings
Prosody in context: The effect of sequential relationships between speaker turns
Prosody in German Sign Language
Subject index

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Prosody and Meaning

Interface Explorations 25

Editors

Artemis Alexiadou T. Alan Hall

De Gruyter Mouton

Prosody and Meaning

edited by

Gorka Elordieta Pilar Prieto

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN 978-3-11-026007-6 e-ISBN 978-3-11-026179-0 ISSN 1861-4167 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A CIP catalog record for this book has been applied for at the Library of Congress. Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available in the Internet at http://dnb.dnb.de. ” 2012 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston Cover image: iStockphoto/Thinkstock Typesetting: Asco Typesetters, Hong Kong Printing: Hubert & Co. GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen ⬁ Printed on acid-free paper Printed in Germany www.degruyter.com

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