Recent models of Information Structure (IS) identify a low level contrast feature that functions within the topic and focus of the utterance. This study investigates the exact nature of this feature based on empirical evidence from a controlled read speech experiment on the prosodic realization of different levels of contrast in Modern Greek. Results indicate that only correction is truly contrastive, and that it is similarly realized in both topic and focus, suggesting that contrast is an independent IS dimension. Non default focus position is further identified as a parameter that triggers a prosodically marked
rendition, similar to correction.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:Potsdam/oai:kobv.de-opus-ubp:6606 |
| Date | January 2013 |
| Creators | Stavropoulou, Pepi |
| Publisher | Universität Potsdam, Wissenschaftliche Einrichtungen. Sonderforschungsbereich 632 - Informationsstruktur |
| Source Sets | Potsdam University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | InProceedings |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Universität Potsdam / Schriftenreihen / Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632, ISSN 1866-4725 / ISIS (2013) 17 / S. 1-31 |
| Rights | http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/doku/urheberrecht.php |
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