Hocus Focus - How prosodic profiles of contrastive focus emerge and change in different elicitation contexts

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Speech Prosody, SP 2012

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 262-265

  Görs, Karin ^a   Niebuhr, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emphasis; Focus; German; Information structure

Indexed keywords

CONTRASTIVE FOCUS; EMPHASIS; GERMAN; INFORMATION STRUCTURES;

FOCUSING;

EID: 84902963808     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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