Poetic rhyme reflects cross-linguistic differences in information structure

Cognition

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 166-175

  Wagner, Michael ^a   McCurdy, Katherine ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Focus; Givenness; Information structure; Poetry; Prosody; Rhyme

Indexed keywords

ART; ARTICLE; HYPOTHESIS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; LITERATURE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; POETRY AS TOPIC; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 77957680178     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.08.007     Document Type: Article

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