Different phrasal prominence realizations in VO and OV languages

Lingue e Linguaggio

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 139-167

  Nespor, Marina ^a,g   Shukla, Mohinish ^b   Van De Vijver, Ruben ^c   Avesani, Cinzia ^d   Schraudolf, Hanna ^e   Donati, Caterina ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^g SISSA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acquisition; Iambic trochaic law; Perception; Prosody; Rhythm

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649193373     PISSN: 17209331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1418/28093     Document Type: Article

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