The influence of information structure on tonal scaling in German is examined
experimentally. Eighteen speakers uttered a total of 2277 sentences of the same syntactic …

In the past decades of research, questions have become a very prominent topic at the
semantics-pragmatics interface. Certainly, they are a natural and challenging topic for any …

This chapter surveys theoretical and empirical issues related to the syntax–phonology
interface in Japanese. 1 In this chapter, the term syntax–phonology interface will be used to …

Many tests have been used in eliciting focus constructions and determining what type of
focus a certain linguistic strategy expresses. This paper provides an overview of the various …

Abstract Sara Myrberg. 2010. The Intonational Phonology of Stockholm Swedish.(
Stockholmssvenskans intonationsfonologi). Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis. Stockholm …

This paper revisits empirical and theoretical problems of focus prosody in Japanese, and
proposes a new analysis. Contrary to the widely accepted assumption that focus directly or …

Prosody simultaneously encodes different kinds of information about an utterance, including
the type of speech act (which, in English, often affects the choice of intonational tune), the …

This chapter provides an introduction to the phenomenon of prosodic focus, as well as to the
theory of Alternative Semantics. Alternative Semantics provides an insightful account of what …

This study investigates the phonetics of German nuclear rise-fall contours in relation to
contexts that trigger either a contrastive or a non-contrastive interpretation in the answer. A …

This book investigates the syntax and usage of fragments (Morgan 1973), apparently
subsentential utterances like" A coffee, please!" which fulfill the same communicative …