From focus to syntax

Lingua

Volumn 113, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1119-1142

  Donati, Caterina ^a   Nespor, Marina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Focus; Intonational phrase prominence; Prosodic bootstrapping; Turkish; Word order

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038036246     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0024-3841(03)00015-9     Document Type: Article

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