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Prosodic signaling of information and discourse structure from a typological perspective

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Editor

  • The Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015

Summary, in English

This study investigates the relationship between prosody and information/discourse structure in spon- taneous spoken folk tales in the tonal Mon-Khmer language Northern Kammu, a language that behaves as a typical phrase language where available boun- dary tones are enhanced to mark information struc- turing. Topic is always placed before Comment by syntactic movement if necessary. There is a prosodic signaling of the boundary between Topic and Com- ment. Discourse structure is reflected in prosody, and we find higher boundary tones near the bounda- ries between Discourse Units. The results are dis- cussed in terms of a typology of spoken discourse.

Publishing year

2015

Language

English

Publication/Series

Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

University of Glasgow

Topic

  • Languages and Literature

Conference name

18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences

Conference date

2015-08-10 - 2015-08-14

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-0-85261-941-4
  • ISBN: 978-0-85261-942-1