The rise in the rise-fall contour: Does it evoke a contrastive topic or a contrastive focus?

Linguistics

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 515-563

  Van Hoof, Hanneke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

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