On the Grammar and Semantics of Sentence Accents |
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Focus mode and the nucleus | 11 |
A rule for the assignment of sentence | 63 |
Postnuclear generalisations | 93 |
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accent assignment accented syllable adverbs analysis Argument assigned an accent background Bing Bolinger boundary tone British English compound constituents context contingency sentences contour corpus counterassertive Crystal delay discussed domain assignment downstep Dutch effect element English intonation example expressions fact fall-rise focus distribution focus domain George & Mildred George and Mildred given Gussenhoven half-completed Halliday hearer host sentence Iambic Reversal interpretation John Ladd language lexical Liberman linguistic manipulation marked meaning Mildred modification morphemes niet Note nuclear syllable nuclear tone nucleus O'Connor & Arnold Observe option paradigm pattern phonetic phonological pitch position predicate prenuclear prepositions prominence prosodic question Quirk realised refer Retraction rhythm rule rise-fall RR-words SAAR Schmerling Schubiger segmental semantic sentence accent speaker speech stress shift syntactic Tag II tail tence tion tone group tone linking topicalisation unaccented utterances Variable verb well-formed WH-movement word Yvonne Zandvoort zijn