The intonation of accessibility

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1636-1657

  Baumann, Stefan ^a   Grice, Martine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Deaccentuation; Givenness; Information structure; Intonation; Prosody

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747201889     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2005.03.017     Document Type: Article

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