The Intonation of Givenness
Evidence from German
1st Edition
Published on 14. February 2012
X, 183 pages
978-3-11-092120-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book addresses students and researchers of phonetics/phonology, and the semantics and pragmatics of discourse. It employs an autosegmental-metrical model of intonation to investigate the marking of aspects of information structure, concentrating on the Given-New dimension. The empirical evidence provided here is based on German. It shows that the dichotomy of 'accented' versus 'uncaccented' corresponding to 'New' versus 'Given' information is inadequate. In fact, there is evidence that a range of pitch accent types can be mapped onto the gradient scale of Givenness degrees, with the pitch height on the accented syllable being the determining factor.
Reviews / Votes
"It is a valuable addition to our scholary library."Stefan Baumann in: The Phonetician 1/2007More details
Series
Thesis
Doctoral thesis
2005
Universität Saarbrücken
Edition
Reprint 2012
Language
English
Place of publication
Tübingen
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
File size
0,82 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-11-092120-5 (9783110921205)
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
08/2006
1st Edition
De Gruyter
€119.95
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Content
- Intro
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Motivation and Aims
- 1.2 Structure of the Study
- 2 Theoretical Background
- 2.1 Intonation
- 2.2 Givenness
- 2.3 Intermediate Summary: The Relation between Intonation and Givenness
- 3 Corpus Analysis
- 3.1 The MULI Database
- 3.2 Analysis
- 3.3 Discussion
- 4 Experiments
- 4.1 Perception Experiment I: Accent Type and Modes of Givenness
- 4.2 Perception Experiment II: Accent Type and Types of Accessibility
- 5 A Model of Intonation and Givenness
- 6 Summary and Outlook
- Bibliography
