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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

Publié en ligne: 21 févr. 2013

Pages: 70 - 77

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

Mots clés
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

Publié en ligne: 21 févr. 2013

Pages: 70 - 77

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

Mots clésconventional implicature, focus, intonational phrase, prosodic integration

© 2012 by Versita

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

Mots clés
conventional implicature, focus, intonational phrase, prosodic integration