Focus and the interpretation of pitch accent: Disambiguating embedded questions

Language and Speech

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 75-105

  Schafer, Amy ^a   Carlson, Katy ^b   Clifton, Charles ^b   Frazier, Lyn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Focus; Pitch accents; Prosody; Sentence interpretation; Syntactic ambiguity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009587473     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00238309000430010301     Document Type: Article

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