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PRODUCTION AND PERCEPTION OF THEMATIC CONTRAST IN GERMAN
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| By: |
Bettina Braun |
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Paperback |
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£61.80 |
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| ISBN 10: |
3039105663 |
| ISBN 13: |
9783039105663 |
| Publisher: |
VERLAG PETER LANG |
| Pub. date: |
1 October, 2005 |
| Edition: |
Annotated edition |
| Series: |
Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics 9 |
| Pages: |
277 |
| Synopsis: |
Variations in speech melody (intonation) can be used to express different meanings (e.g. question vs. statement, friendliness). Yet, intonational information is hardly used in presentday linguistic models. When intonational information is used, it is mostly based on introspection rather than on empirical investigation; almost exclusively, a one-to-one relation between accent types and semantic function is assumed. This book focuses on an empirical investigation of thematic contrast in German. Thematic contrast has received considerable attention in semantics because sentences with contrastive themes can be used to imply propositions of various kinds without saying them explicitly. In this book, first an acoustic comparison between sentences produced in contrastive and non-contrastive contexts is described. Intonational realisation is quantified in terms of the height and position of tonal targets. The perceptual reality of different productions and the relevance of different accoustic cues are tested by means of rating experiments. Finally, the data are prosodically annotated by a group of linguists to explore the validity and explanatory power of different accent categories for contrastive and non-contrastive themes in German. |
| Illustrations: |
fig. and tables |
| Publication: |
Switzerland |
| Imprint: |
Verlag Peter Lang |
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Returnable |
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