Referential and lexical givenness: Semantic, prosodic and cognitive aspects

Prosody and Meaning

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 119-161

  Baumann, Stefan ^a   Riester, Arndt ^a  

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Author keywords

Corpus annotation; Information status; Prosody

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