Prosodic Effects of Discourse Salience and Association with Focus
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Wagner, M.
Breen, Mara
Flemming, Edward
Shattuck-Hufnagel, Stefanie
Gibson, Edward A.
Date Issued
May 2010
Journal
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Speech Prosody, 2010
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International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)
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Wagner, M. et al. "Prosodic Effects of Discourse Salience and Association with Focus." Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Speech Prosody, 2010, Chicago, May 11-14, 2010.
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Abstract
Three factors that have been argued to influence the prosody of an utterance are (i) which constituents encode discourse-salient information; (ii) which constituents are contrastive in that they evoke alternatives; and (iii) which constituents interact with the meaning of focus operators such as only (i.e., they ‘associate’ with focus). One challenge for a better understanding of these factors and their interaction has been the difficulty of finding a way to evaluate hypotheses quantitatively, since individual variation in productions is often large enough to wash out experimental effects. In this paper, we apply a methodology introduced in [1] to control for such variation and present evidence for how the three factors interact to influence prosody in sentences containing single or multiple foci.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
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