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<p> The aim of this paper is to investigate the relation between prosodic and semantic properties of Intonational Phrases, based on the facts from Serbian. The production tests and elicited judgements show that the prosodic integration of the embedded IPs (appositives, parentheticals, and the left-peripheral adverbs) has a distinct semantic effect, or is accompanied by the narrow focus interpretation within the proposition modified.</p>
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The aim of this paper is to investigate the relation between prosodic and semantic properties of Intonational Phrases, based on the facts from Serbian. The production tests and elicited judgements show that the prosodic integration of the embedded IPs (appositives, parentheticals, and the left-peripheral adverbs) has a distinct semantic effect, or is accompanied by the narrow focus interpretation within the proposition modified.

Prosodic and Semantic Properties of Intonational Phrases

Romanian Journal of English Studies

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The aim of this paper is to investigate the relation between prosodic and semantic properties of Intonational Phrases, based on the facts from Serbian. The...

Prosodic and Semantic Properties of Intonational Phrases

Published Online: Feb 21, 2013

Page range: 70 - 77

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10319-012-0008-9

Keywords
conventional implicature, focus, intonational phrase, prosodic integration

© 2012 by Versita

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Prosodic and Semantic Properties of Intonational Phrases

Published Online: Feb 21, 2013

Page range: 70 - 77

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10319-012-0008-9

Keywordsconventional implicature, focus, intonational phrase, prosodic integration

© 2012 by Versita

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
conventional implicature, focus, intonational phrase, prosodic integration