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Bishop, Jason Brandon – ProQuest LLC, 2013
A primary function of prosody in many languages is to convey information structure--the "packaging" of a sentence's content into categories such as "focus", "given" and "topic". In English and other West Germanic languages it is widely assumed that focus is signaled prosodically by the location of a…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Phonetics, Phonology, Sentence Structure